Hank's Inferno

Canto I

it should not bring amazement to thy face.
I'm so lonesome I could cry
shed tears, and in their looks appeared subdued
Headin' south from Caroline

and turning to the right along its ridge,
Rootie Tootie, she's my Monday gal.
Farinata and Tegghiaio, who so worthy were,
I stand on the banks of the river

its mosques already in that valley there,
Praise the Lord I saw the light.
what time the Giants caused the Gods to fear;
Why Don't You Love Me like you used to do.

because his eyesight could not lead him far
Since my baby said goodbye
is bathed by waters which therein find rest.
And I'll catch all the fish in the bayou

its body is taken from it by a demon,
With the pride that came between us
where Hercules set up those signs of his,
A sweatin' and swearin'

than to remember happy days in days
You should see the people stare
as I, after such words as these were uttered,
You didn't even know, the chances you were takin'

“Nearer than thou dost hope he then replied,
Darlin I could never be ashamed of you
since which till now I ’ve had him by the hair;
For you've grown tired of all the love I gave you

that from the pyre it seems to rise, whereon
You tried and lost, now pay the cost
mantled already with that planet’s rays
Didn't think you would leave me behind

for great desire constraineth me to learn
Jesus said ,come on to me
“Before I tear myself from this abyss,
I'll meet my loved ones there, in that land so bright and fair

because the Fishes o’er the horizon quiver,
You lived on promises I knew would fall apart
whose nature differed in no way from that,
They're leavin' on that Devil's Train

ungrateful, wicked people, which of old
When it rains - it wets ever'thing we got
that so dost in our short life goad us on,
Dear, I must throw your things away

but, as I told him, his own spitefulness
At the close of Ev'ry day
’gainst me inflamed the minds of every one;
I've sent your saddle home.

Canto II

I, therefore: “Teacher, say what town is this?
How she cried when I left her
Abram the patriarch, and David king,
Will you please make up your mind what you want me to do

If it be true the right bank slopeth so,
In my dreams you're still my only darlin'
‘Father, thou lookest so! What aileth thee?’
Just how much mama worried when we children were away

he ne’er so changed two natures, that the forms
Around me many are building
even by the God it was not thine to know,
'Cause My Bucket's Got A Hole In It

but that complete experience may be giv’n him,
Will you move to that beautiful city
seems not unfitting to a thoughtful man;
Now boys don't start to ramblin' round

mayst thou, accursèd spirit, here remain,
But dear I hope you're happy just the same
to one of them my Leader then began,
Mother is gone, to her home

would fain excuse myself, and all the while
And get no lovin' in return
to those who burdens win by severing bonds.
I guess that I - should not complain

set not thy feet upon the burning sand,
There just ain't nobody knows what I go through
Why dost thou lodge such baseness in thy heart,
Those wedding bells will never ring for me

defended by a lovely little stream.
Now I got rockin' chair money
the hope I had of winning to the top.
The porch rotted down - that's more expense

which for the bone were strong as are a dog’s.
Ev'rybody's lonesome for somebody else
And as I, looking, came into their midst,
He's repeating these words he was told.

And one of them, who felt aggrieved, perhaps,
'cause I'm cryin' for you, dear
And I said: “Teacher, wait now for me here,
Oh the rain is slowly fallin',

the reason why such discord hath assailed her.
Tote it on over (move it on over)
but what brings thee into such pungent sauces?
My number's in the book

replied: “To this condition I was come
Then all God's faithful children will raise up from the dead
‘O Lady of virtue, thou through whom alone
And then maybe these tears

Canto III

Gallura’s man, a vessel of all fraud,
Son of a gun we'll have big fun on the bayou
that I may somewhat vent the pain that fills
Now I ain't had a kiss since I fell out of my crib

those frightful Giants, whom, when from the sky
You'll cry and cry
which comes along so cloven at the top,
And there's pictures of keys and of strife

Semiramis she is, of whom one reads
THEN IT'S USELESS TO YOU, IF YOU'VE STRAYED FROM THE FOLD,
who Latin is? And he: “Not long ago
So scratch it on over (move it on over)

for fires I now beheld, and wailings heard;
LORD I WENT TO THE DOCTOR, HE TOOK ONE LOOK,
repent her not, whoever subtly looks
If it was rainin' gold I wouldn't stand a chance

Then, having talked among themselves awhile,
Got 'em in the bottom of my ramblin' shoes,
So wholly wast thou then intent on him
Lord you better keep it on your mind

his nose cut off as far as ’neath his brows,
I know that I - should leave, but then
recall to mind our avaricious breasts.
I'm going home, I'm going home

A narrow slit within the moulting-tower,
For when she went away, my world ended that day
behold who sickens all the world with stench!
That I wouldn't settle down if I could

remain, that him so dark a land didst show.
I heard the angels singing songs of peace and rest
There is a devil here behind, who thus
Those who seek it will recieve it, mercy at the Savior's feet.

and after it there came so long a line
She leaves Cincinnati headin' down that Dixie line
and still more will there be, until the Hound
tell her that I've met my saviour

to seek their profit and avoid their loss,
They nailed his hands there on the cross
which bears, because of me, the name of Hunger,
But what good would it do

to have the people pass across the bridge,
It makes me laugh and it makes me cry
Let us leave him alone, nor talk in vain;
Not even the angels; in heaven will know

and thus like crystal visors wholly fill
Just a picture from life's other side
Now canst thou, son, behold the short-lived cheat
WHEN THE WORLD IS ON FIRE, ON THAT JUDGEMENT DAY,

Canto IV

thus upside down? And in so short a time
I got the lovesick blues
and seed of their conception and their birth.
now my key, it don't fit no more

from this thy reading, think now for thyself
I got all that I can do just to mind my own
but of the good to treat which there I found,
Just another guy on the lost highway

Eurỳpylus, and in a certain place
Where the cotton grows and the suwanee flows,
And he replied to me: “They each and all
Yea! My Bucket's Got A Hole In It

as greyhounds are, when from their chains unleashed.
So I don't care if tomorrow never comes.
I think that he had risen upon his knees.
Yes, i'm goin' back to dixie, that's the place i long to be,

by that beast’s anger which I quenched just now.
and carry on
“whence dwells in you this overweening pride?
And when I find me that river, Lord I'm gonna pay the price, oh Lord

and I still gazing at its lofty wall,
I've fetched your saddle home.
were saying: “Who is he, that, without death,
FOR NO MATTER HOW MUCH EARTHLY WEALTH YOU GET HOLD,

When I perceived at last that I had reached
Of a family I once knew.
and therefore with its mark the lesser ring
But I'm sure the truth would show

And he, who understood my covert speech,
Oh! Plea-ease - don't let me love you
Her eyes were shining brighter than a star,
All alone I bear the shame

although this trench goes round eleven miles,
You're nice to me when there's no one else around
when sweetly and softly she began to say,
I bowed my head and cried again

some lying are; and some are standing up,
Scoot it on over (move it on over)
I cannot well say how I entered it,
Won't you sometimes think of me

where that vale ended which had pierced my heart
Whom God has called back to the fold
whence I to him: “My Teacher, who moves this?
He always wore his Sunday feathers and held a tomahawk

These churchmen were, who have no hairy covering
The river of life
people I saw upon a great stream’s bank;
But you wouldn't let it be

Canto V

Then, having raised my brows a little higher,
And in her eyes the gleam again that old time tender light
They had no feathers, but were like a bat’s
I'm sentenced to die at dawn

of that which many voyages has made;
The first scene is that of a gambler
Then, as it pleased him, I embraced his neck,
When you're alone and blue tonight my little darlin'

of such a nature were the flames that moved
I don't care who thinks we're silly you'll be daffy and I'll be dilly
They go by thousands round about the moat,
No-bod-o-dy lonesome for me.

When they were somewhat pacified again,
We'll meet in heaven some glad day. ...
These words were wafted down to us from them.
I stand on the banks of the river

to see if any yonder air themselves;
I'm like a weepin'-willow, while we're apart
now from the flames, now from the heated soil.
I knew not where the road would end

when I was in it, cast mine eyes around,
We'll take in all the honky tonks tonight we're havin' fun
who yonder claws herself with filthy nails,
LOVING YOU AND KNOWING YOU WERE UNTRUE,

and out of it there came a stench, like that
The first three months, was all OK,
Yet dead men’s feet are not thus wont to do.
I'VE GOT THE MEAN OLD MISERIES IN MY SOUL,

the execution of so great a charge,
There's more fish in the sea
his arms he opened, and took hold of me.
There was a time when I believed that you belonged to me

till thou return, I ’ll talk with this wild beast,
Praise the Lord I saw the light.
And as a frog remains, to do its croaking,
As I brushed your arm and walked so close to you ...

the thoughts thou hast will all be proven false.
I leave you the day, to help all your neighbors
and led me to the bush, which all in vain
And out in the darkness the whippoorwills cry.

While toward the lowland I was falling fast,
From the start to the VJ day
“These have no hope of death, and so low down
came the day you said you'd be my own

the undiscerning life which made them foul,
My life with you baby has been one hard knock
who are these people that such honor have,
Her eyes reflect the nightlife her cheeks they're red with paint

Canto VI

should have been welcomed in the world above.
To live in when this life is o'er
’t is now abandoned like a thing outworn.
And now the bitter teardrops start

the enterprise so hastily commenced.
As we pay tribute to one of the greatest of all time Bob Wills
‘Him of Duera’ thou canst say, ‘I saw
Why when I married you, you were such a meek little thing

The latter streaked their faces with their blood,
BUT YOU HAVE TREATED ME SO BAD,
Averrhoès, who made the famous comment.
I'll never see that gal of mine

as if it were not, longs for that which is;
And I Just Don't Like This Kind Of Livin'.
Two paws it had, all hairy to the arm-pits;
To anyone who's fool enough to fall ...

He of the dropsy: “Here thou sayest true,
About my daddy
the town, whose name is Dis, is drawing near
days we could recall if you would only try dear

thus is it yonder willed, where there is power
We don't get nearer or further or closer
the nature of the place shoots forth, I ’d say
When i cross them smokey mountains. i'll be countin' every mile,

And that one: “O my son, be not displeased
Said the little paper boy, there on the street
if e’er thou see again the lovely plain,
The things you didn't calculate

in that I answered him in this strain only:
Lord I've tried and I've tried
takes from the very place in which I sinned
There just ain't nobody knows what I go through

according as my Escort had informed me;
There's no room in my heart for the blues
that in revenge dost deal such blows as these!
And if it all were true

for she makes both my veins and pulses tremble!
And then I jumped in the river, but the doggone river was dry
I, who now have thee go, am Beatrice;
And that's the only thing that counts

past all resistance by the minds of men;
Yipsy-doodle, (Rootie Tootie)
thou dive, but o’er the pitch shall beat my wings;
When tears come down

with one half of their bodies towered up
There's nothin' as sweet as my baby
he claws the spirits, flays and quarters them.
Once he was fair and once he was young

Canto VII

and in a file, between it and the bank,
Where a living death is all that's left for men with broken hearts
to whom, thereafter, if thou wouldst ascend,
That the saints have travelled on

that most men from his secrets I withheld;
And live with Christ ever more.
up to the river I abstained from speech.
Well, I went upon the mountain - I looked down in the sea

on burning paper which is not yet black,
You know I miss you, now that you're gone
bidding thee lick the mirror of Narcissus.
but a tear came and he whispered, "I want my parents too".

a nose, and thickened suitably its lips.
God called dad to go
If to know who I am concern thee so,
Long is the road that leads you

by twitching more than all the rest, his mates,
Rock my cradle once again.
that in revenge dost deal such blows as these!
We'll go Honky Tonkin' 'round this town.

This we ascended with the greatest ease,
Each night when the pale moon is shining
so, one by one, the evil seed of Adam
Your cheatin' heart will tell on you...

Bowstring ne’er shot an arrow from itself,
Move it on over (move it on over)
be all revolved. Into a well like this
It's his last earthly treasure but he stakes it

that it would yield a path for one above;
They nailed his hands there on the cross
said I to him, “on this express condition,
To spend eternity

to whom, thereafter, if thou wouldst ascend,
Soon I'll cross that dark river
Such as the Carisenda seems, when viewed
On an outcast, soon no one will save

although this trench goes round eleven miles,
I'm leaving now
The cities of Lamone and Santerno
for water... cool, clear water.

offends God least, and hence receives least blame?
I've sent your saddle home.
by reason of the distance, and so high
Someone has fell by the way

and tournaments and tilting-matches fought;
On the banks of the old Pontchartrain.
but said, in opposition to the rest:
No matter how I struggle and strive

Canto VIII

I pocketed up there, and here myself.
I gave up my friends, I left my home
with both its middle feet it clasped his paunch,
Cry, oh, lord.

my Teacher said, “and see if thou perceive him.
No matter how I struggle and strive
I did not die, nor yet remained alive;
The silence of a falling star

o’er which it spreads, and, making it a marsh,
How come you treat me like a worn out shoe
See Farinata who has risen there;
Way up in heaven above

sits where the shore lies lowest round about.
There all my fears and tears were lost
As he who by the bears avenged himself,
HOW CAN YOU REFUSE HIM NOW, HOW CAN YOU REFUSE HIM NOW,

“who hath his head within, and plies his legs
You tried to make her blue
he talks about the frog and mouse; for ‘now’
And late in the evening

it said to me, “recall me, if thou canst;
When the sun was low
When Cerberus, the mighty worm, perceived us,
You said that you no longer loved me

by reason of our speech and of our mind,
Faded love and winter roses always bloom in memory
my garment’s hem, exclaimed: “How wonderful!
The congregation's waitin' for the preacher

even such a structure seemed I now to see;
And i don't feel too sure
this mass of rock had not yet fallen down.
Then the Angel's chief musicians teach that little boy a song

be this a witness undeceiving all!
Get the supper on the table
for in the third great trench your station is!
I prayed in my heart I would never be found

it seemed as if their nimble legs were wings.
That the old-time religion was real
things that are far from us; to that extent
All these years how I've loved you

and often take the color from our faces;
You never would admit you were mis-tak-en
performs the journey whereupon I go.
So slide it on over (move it on over)

and Mantuans with respect to fatherland.
That for every fallen woman there's a hundred fallen men
at thy sweet will dost speak! they all replied.
Would you stand and shout his name or bow your head in shame

Canto IX

But now, lest thou enjoy this sight of me,
We'll go and lose them blues
And he to me: “The honorable fame,
I can't fool my cryin' heart

the cold, and from his eyes, his saddened heart
Callin' You?, (Callin' You?)
it said to me, “recall me, if thou canst;
And call my name

O’er those dead bones of hers they built a town;
The bees got mad - and they left the hive
and said: “Off yonder, thou malicious bird!
Baby, rock, rock on down the line

a noise like nothing other than a wind,
Honky tonk blues,
as the disciple him who teaches; hence,
I'll be locked here in this cell

which did not seem less hard, upon his face,
Now I went down to the bank this morning,
nor different is the speed with which a duck
And that's all she wrote, Dear John,

and tied together in a knot in front.
A neighbor was passing my garden one time
“but what I died for doth not bring me here.
She's sweeter than wine and brother she's mine

Through me one goes into the town of woe,
Enchantment strange as the blue up above
much clearer was my vision toward the bottom,
Gentlemen of the jury the judge's speech began

he led me in among the hidden things.
She changed the lock on my front door
the Teacher I beheld of those that know,
I could say it's over now

when by the first blows smitten! Certainly
By the singin' waterfall
and in proportion to it were his other bones;
Calling for you (my brother) don't turn away (from Jesus)

And he: “Thou knowest that the place is round,
Son of a gun we'll have big fun on the bayou
so fiercely mad did Athamas become,
It's on its way to heaven now

fitted to claw him well, they both fell down
I could give you all the blame
and thus was causing pain to three of them.
I'm not gonna worry wrinkles in my brow

and both of these, if one would tell the truth,
In this world I'm left to wander
who, moving with exceedingly slow steps,
where there's no quest

Canto X

encircle castles for the walls’ protection,
There just ain't nobody knows what I go through
But follow me now, for I please to go;
Rootie Tootie, (Rootie Tootie)

so made the heavens, and so gave guides to them,
Lord you better keep it on your mind
Thereat my Teacher over his right cheek
I'll tell you right now I've had enough of that

when he had turned him to the right, we passed
And his eyes they brightly sparkle at the pretty things he view
who metals falsified by alchemy;
You're Gonna Change or I'm a-gonna leave.

before I speak of it. But if my words
But someday you'll wish that I still care.
was he, for whom, Gavillë, thou dost weep.
I'm going home, I'm going home

The latter so oppressed me with the fear
I knew she was part of, his happier years
whither, when lost, he went away to die.
with a manner sort of awkward and countenance grotesque.

“So may your memory never fly away
I feel so sorry for you Hank,
which out of rotting limbs is wont to come.
My head was swelled up so doggone big I couldn't get it through my front door

he stands on that, than on the other foot.
Leave the road of sin alone
out of her senses, barked as would a dog;
So why should we try anymore

carries the spirits onward with its sweep,
I never knew i loved you so;
in fashion; these he flapped in such a way,
All I do is sit and cry

Democritus, who thinks the world chance-born,
It's hard to know another's lips will kiss you
even by the God it was not thine to know,
Some people struggle for riches

whose means are small for taking in so much.
Just another guy on the lost highway
and though a long way thou hast gone already,
And He gave His life completely to bring a better day

and in whose walls still others must be locked,
Never on this earth to meet no more.
But she is blest, and gives no heed to that;
He likes everything from a soup to hay

from one of those ark-tombs; hence I, in fear,
All my dreams have died and vanished
When Juno, on account of Semele,
And i don't feel too sure

Canto XI

Teacher, said I on rising, “talk to me
Both footsore and weary I rested awhile
And were it not for this, that I am still
I'll wake up tomorrow, with tears in my eyes

Its soil was of a dense and arid sand,
Where they meet you and they greet you,
Nor far this side of where I fell asleep
Them jumpin honky tonk blues,

Let us go on, for it is willed in Heaven
HE CRIED THEY DON'T UNDERSTAND,
even by the verses of this Comedy,
Darlin' if our romance ends let us be the best of friends

or e’er thou trust me to the arduous course.
AND WHEN YA JUST ABOUT TO DOSE...FLY TROUBLE
Thou hast with such desire disposed my heart
Now, honey, let's go honky tonkin'

as in this dim light I perceive they are.
Now I know I'll never find another sweetheart
that I may see Saint Peter’s Gate, and those
You don't dress up in satin,

those whom the wind drives, those the rain beats down,
Someone has fell by the way
as far as where our human form begins.
And you cheated on me from the start.

untilled and naked of inhabitants.
For always when we'd step aside she'd call and we'd reply
people I saw immersed in excrement,
'Cause I won't be home no more.

one stood before me filled with mud, and said:
We're getting closer to the grave each day
the Flemings make between Witsand and Bruges,
Any time you wanna go

Make us not go to Tìtyus or to Tìpheus;
Just listen to the whistle, it'll thrill you one and all,
their villages and strongholds to defend,
Just listen to the whistle, it'll thrill you one and all,

and signalled to it to approach the edge,
I Told A Lie To My Heart.
necessity is leading him, not pleasure.
Ready to live in Paradise

And he to me: “The eternal fire within
And then I took her in my arms,
but I can not suppress it here; hence, Reader,
That I should be ashamed to take you 'round

And with his arms he then embraced my neck,
I know that you'll never be true
Although this cursèd folk shall nevermore
Just stay close to Jesus and journey in His light

Canto XII

On my return to consciousness, which closed
Oh, the woman on our party line's the nosiest thing
This is Megaera here upon the left;
Where the soul........never dies.

that one is high, and low the following one;
Shake it on over (move it on over)
shalt thou have us, than while we cross the swamp.
In anger, unkind words are said that make the teardrops start

for though she breed chelỳdri, jàculi,
I really learned the meaning of living and loving I've been down that road before
or layman’s head it were, was not apparent.
My helper, he quit - for the lack of pay

“O thou benign and gracious living creature,
When time goes crawling by
in the beginning moved those beauteous things;
Then suddenly I got that old time feeling

both of the world, and of the vice and worth
She left this world with a smile on her face
he firmly grasped the shaggy flanks, and then
You got me chasin Rabbits, pickin' out rings and Howlin' At The Moon

in Mongibello’s smithy black with smoke,
Katy, she's waitin' at the garden gate
or less become, or burn the same as now.
What will you do; when the Saviour ain't nigh

was Alp-like, and, through what was also there,
And now we've reached the hour of parting
lowered before their eyes, and cut like those
My lips could tell a lie, but my heart would know

began again: “Why dost thou break me off?
It offers you temptation
right in my Master’s face, who stayed outside,
Now we'll forever be apart

On coming up to us, they watched me long
"So please buy a paper from me
let those dull people think, who do not see
If you go to the city then you will find me there

unless the features which thou hast are false,
Now I know I'll never find another sweetheart
to that town which I have well stocked therewith;
Too many broken vows and promises

He is much further on, whom thou wouldst see,
The little paper boy who died in the snow
I saw his arms withdraw into his armpits,
Till we dance to the waltz of the wind

Ah, why, hard earth, didst thou not open up?
She's strong as she can be,
hatred toward him thou eatest, tell me why,
There's no use to try anymore

Canto XIII

as if to say: “I ’d have thee speak no more;
You thought she'd care for you and so you acted smart
As the Sicilian bull (which bellowed first
That dreams will soon come true

I reached a region silent of all light,
Well, you're just in time to celebrate
this flame would stay without another quiver;
But nobody's lonesome for me

to flee from him, what is on this side seen
So blue the nights, so blue the days
“It seldom comes to pass that one of us
But it can't chill my heart

one waiting thus, as oft, while one frog stays,
And i know there's some one waitin', with the sweetest how you are,
seemed to be made of glass and not of water.
You'll stand in God's Kingdom, When The Book Of Life Is Read.

the lovely world, and set them at this fray;
Where the cotton grows and the suwanee flows,
that I with both a single purpose formed.
But your wife has done been in,

nailed up; whereat, without a word, I looked
In a little country village
and if, of these, one showed a limb pierced through,
You have no right to be the judge to criticize and condemn

See how he makes a bosom of his shoulders;
I'VE WALKED THE FLOOR 'TILL I'VE WORE OUT MY SHOES,
If yonder thou attain, thou ’lt clearly see
I wonder, I wonder - what she's thinking of

When we were where it hollows out below,
Then i know what you're dreamin' of
encircled and sustained me with his arms;
Now I ain't just talkin' to hear myself cause I've been down that road before

The other sank, and then rose doubled up;
I'm waitin' for a woman - That ain't got no man.
some one whom we may know by deed or name,
You're Gonna Change or I'm a-gonna leave.

whence I: “Their meaning, Teacher, troubles me.
No need for you to set alone,
except the stubborn devils who came out
In spring I'll wait for roses red when fades the lilacs bloom

— against me this one seemed to be advancing
'Cause it knows I need you so
When we had gone so far ahead, that now
To the tune of the ALABAMA WALTZ.

attention here! His finger then he raised.
I'm like a weepin-willow, while we're apart
even as my Leader had commanded me,
Such a beautiful dream

Canto XIV

Thereat the common back was broken up,
You don't wear diamond rings,
Ere now have I seen cavalry break camp,
In this world of grief and sorrow

like flakes of snow that fall on windless Alps.
Upsy-daisy, (Rootie Tootie)
When once its water gathers head to run,
So this world would not be lost

And he to me: “Return thou to thy science,
It's that Pan American on her way to New Or-leans.
Why dost thou lodge such baseness in thy heart,
I picked her up in a pickup truck

“Look at that great man there, who, as he comes,
(So) never again will I knock on your door
and he that lives without attaining it,
And see her love turn into sympathy

from off his back, but brought me to the hole
Run along run along don't you pester me further
through all that day, or through the following night,
every day and every night

by demon force, which pulls him to the ground,
So I'll say goodbye dear till tomorrow
Even as at Arles, where marshy turns the Rhone,
So why should we try anymore

one crucified by three stakes on the ground.
Oh! Lord his burdens are greater than mine.
a sinner he was crushing with his teeth,
Oh heavenly Father, help me understand

that for thy sake he left the common herd?
And from way out in the darkness, see that headlight gleam
they then made off with those his suffering limbs.
Yes, his burdens are greater than mine.

His head is formed of finest gold, his arms
He begged for the crumbs from the rich man to eat
to feel how much whoever passes weighs.
And drive your buggy back to town

it harmed thee not, when in the dark wood’s depths.
Darling let's turn back my years and go back to yesterday
“Ye that are pressing thus your breasts together,
Let Jesus lead you home

not of the rest, for they should not be feared.
Gently rocked my baby cradle
I stopped, and two I saw, whose faces showed
How come you treat me like a worn out shoe

if from the hospitals of Val di Chiana,
Oh, please understand.
but, as I told him, his own spitefulness
In the world's mighty gallery of pictures

Canto XV

except the stubborn devils who came out
I picked her up in a pickup truck
whoever of your world deprives himself,
Are gathered to weep

’t is not enough, for they did not have baptism,
Like falling rain
And she to me: “There is no greater pain
When I get to Glory I'll see no more

over the bank which girds it round about,
and don't go to criticizn' the one what knows the best.
and of those, too, that in its fangs it holds.
That's home sweet home to me,

there, save Bonturo, every one ’s a grafter;
There'll be great signs in Heaven, in the sun, the moon, the stars.
all chosen iron is he down from there,
And keep the homefires burnin'

even so who governs France shall yield to this.
To hide its face and cry
To him who was in front of us the biting
Through valleys, o'er mountains and plains

whence all my guilt I bring, pray tell me whether
You got me chasin' Rabbits, walkin' on my hands
bowed down and closed, when brightened by the sun,
It hurts me to know you are unhappy

the earliest wealthy Father took from thee!
There all my fears and tears were lost
for, as I thought it over, I gave up
Louiville Nashville Montgomery the cap'tal of Ala-bam

Hence, that my Leader might give heed, I placed
You got me chasin' Rabbits, pullin' out my hair and Howlin' At The Moon.
who then takes charge of it, until its time
And you're at your journey's end

than these, there were no human spirits saved.
How come you treat me like a worn out shoe
with cheerful face, whence I was comforted,
This trial on earth was for my soul

give fame to thee on earth, since he is living,
When I know you don't love me
“That imp is Gianni Schicchi who, enraged,
And I won't be home no more.

he had to show assurance in his face.
Got nothin' to kill to put in the smokehouse
“O thou benign and gracious living creature,
You've reached your journey's end

which was not marked by any path whatever.
And temptation comes your way
When half way through the journey of our life
The first scene is that of a gambler

Canto XVI

in water partly, partly on the land;
I'm traveling in the light
with novel hues, and generated hair
I know I'd still want you-oooo-oo

of Her whose lovely eyes see everything,
My head was swelled up so doggone big I couldn't get it through my front door
because, ere one return in front of him,
I got a feelin' called the blues, oh Lord

“In this thing I was not alone, nor surely
"The bad girl who lived down the street."
that Cervia it o’ercovers with its wings.
I covered the crushed, broken body and said:

pray tell me why so pitiless toward mine
Said the little paper boy, there on the street
which from its bed removeth every plant.
But nobody dreams about me

and who, when by a sudden fear unmanned,
I'll meet my loved ones there, in that land so bright and fair
him to this punishment that fault condemns;
That for every fallen woman there's a hundred fallen men

there Socrates and Plato I beheld,
Callin' You?, (Callin' You?)
because all speech would be of small avail.
Last night I dreamed of heaven and I saw my mother there

“Dost thou think, Malacoda, said my Teacher,
There's no room in my memory for tears
but said, in opposition to the rest:
Now she don't get my rockin' chair

When him in that vast wilderness I saw,
I'm sittin' here waitin' for you right now
and if another troop should meet you, cause it
I kept my vows you left me all alone

and, without caring for repose, went up,
I remember how my Savior died
wherewith the first trench was completely filled.
But nobody's crazy 'bout me

When at the bridge’s very foot he was,
And I Just Don't Like This Kind Of Livin'.
save by the wind below and in my face.
Till we dance to the waltz of the wind

and raising the depraved, afflicts the world.
If you take time to look
Thereafter I beheld a thousand faces
I've got a blue love in my heart

And he to me: ’T is well to know of some;
I've sent your saddle home.
bring us and our requests into contempt,
And stop this burnin', yearnin' while we're apart

Canto XVII

We turned our backs upon the woeful vale
My heart is dead and yet i'm living
is joined thereto, whence special trust is born;
In my dreams you're still my only darlin'

is going through the kingdom of the dead?
Praise the Lord I saw the light.
each on the thorn-tree of its hostile shade.
I'm going home, I'm going home

And he: “Thou knowest that the place is round,
And so my poor dear mourners let your hearts with Jesus rest
the shade of him who through his cowardice
There'll be no tear-dimmed eyes

not without fear do I resolve to speak;
Then I'll stop moanin'; Moa-oanin' The Blues.
And we rejoiced; but soon our happiness
You know, we finally call him the "Old Man"

through all that day, or through the following night,
You know she didn't ask to be brought to
and gone the sight of all things save the beast.
Jesus is calling, calling night and day

to one who to the world would e’er return,
I'm lost on the river
the Romagnoles are having peace or war;
And the soul of man never dies

Art thou so quickly sated with the wealth,
In the distance hear her moanin' hear her lonesome whistle scream
stands still at all, lies prone a hundred years,
Too many times I've watched my castles fall

was wont to bellow with the voice of him
Will you please make up your mind what you want me to do
where they are wont, a gimlet of their teeth.
You never shut your mouth until I blow my top

“My son, within these rocks, he then began,
(Mind your own business)
more fiercely after us, than doth a dog
Faded love and winter roses always bloom in memory

excess of stench the deep abyss exhales,
A long time ago
and ope mine eyes! And yet I oped them not,
I'm hoping and praying someday to return

into this ditch, since when they have not turned,
Where the redeemed of God shall stand
forever in that timelessly dark air,
Down beneath the clay

or other inhibition binding man,
That's why we're so far apart
holding the bounds of both the hemispheres,
Now you're gone, our love could never be

Canto XVIII

thou now art come beneath the hemisphere
And drive your buggy back to town
the nature of the place shoots forth, I ’d say
This is all I can say

and said: “Go on, for I am strong and bold!
So why should we try anymore
a while he looked at me, then bowed his head,
The jug runs dry and still I cry

When I had heard those sorely troubled souls,
Said don't make me no coffee Babe,
From that time onward snakes have been my friends,
While she's circlin' through the canyons, can't you see that mountain stream

Not yet had Nessus reached the other side,
I'll be locked here in this cell
was quiet and erect, and now away from us
Why, oh why do we keep tryin'

When they were somewhat pacified again,
The beachcomber's waitin' for the ride. (tide)
When once its water gathers head to run,
And i don't feel too sure

by help of one who now is ‘on the fence.’
I told them all we were meant for each other
There never was an earthquake strong enough
If you'll just travel in His light and pray both day and night

when looking for an advantageous grip,
Was the only daughter of an en-gin-eer,
to bring thence confirmation in the faith,
While the angels tend the garden of the big plantation ground.

doth any of that first grade e’er descend,
he was some mothers darlin, he was some mothers son
I said: “If, Teacher, thou hide not thyself
And she broke this heart of mine

O happy he whom He thereto elects!
When the road is rocky and you're carrying the load wait for the light to shine
thou dive, but o’er the pitch shall beat my wings;
So shove it on over (move it on over)

that blood, until it only cooked their feet;
If you're thinkin' of me like i'm thinkin' of you
“So may your seed eventually repose,
And longs for the love he can't replace.

Pyrrhus, and Sextus; and forever milks
My heart is dead and yet i'm living
and to mine ancestors, and to my party,
Just listen to the whistle, it'll thrill you one and all,

When, just before the morning, I awoke,
I knew you'd wake up and find her missin'
fly to the other bank; on both sides then
Worries and fears I claimed for my own

Canto XIX

lost both his ears, with face still lowered, said:
All my life I've been so lonesome
As sails, when swollen by the wind, fall down
Cause I know you're living in sorrow

of guilt rolled by, and great Achilles see,
Yea! My Bucket's Got A Hole In It
and, were not for the fire, which, arrow-like,
Here with the shadows around me

he firmly grasped the shaggy flanks, and then
You're just in time to change your tune
none waited for the second, or the third.
The fairest young maiden that I ever saw

while in the present ye do otherwise.
If you missed me half as much as I miss you
horned demons with great scourges I beheld,
Lost on the river

He who was lying down thrusts forth his muzzle,
From the Dear Saviour; who's pleading today
because it let him scuffle with the other;
(Mind your own business)

this from the next trench caused a voice to come,
Tonight my darlin's sleepin'
that with such parts as these may be compared.
I'm taking everything except my ball and chain

“who took to bloodshed and to plundering.
FATHER FORGIVE THEM PLEASE.
to learn who that wretch is, who thus
Once I was happy as I could be

of higher rank then thou believest him.
The log train is silent
Night was already seeing all the stars
I've grown so used to you somehow

before it flows into its lowly bed,
I heard that lonesome whistle blow
had through its opening shown me many a moon
With a welcome on the door

seems not unfitting to a thoughtful man;
We live in two different worlds, dear
Then to all wisdom’s Sea I turned around,
And then I heard her whisper

and all that was there once, could not avail
Don't come back now It is too late
whereby and how did Love concede to you
I WENT TO THE RIVER, BUT THE WATER'S TOO COLD,

new torments all around me I behold,
You knock me down and then you pick me up
It seems, if well I hear, that ye behold
We'll meet in heaven some glad day. ...

Canto XX

Then, after she had spoken to me thus,
Weeping as they lay my darling
and, thus embarassed, we abandoned them.
The maiden wore her beads and braids and hoped someday he'd talk

is kindled under steel, to double pain.
And I know a spot right over the hill
and always seems to look ahead; ev’n so,
My trial on earth is over now

in soul he bathes already in Cocytus,
But mosey around with my head in my hands
caused us to turn our eyes up toward its tip,
A haul right off and count with me

before we issue from the marshy lake.
We've known so much of happiness we've had our cup of joy
I gathered up the scattered twigs and leaves,
And out in the darkness the whippoorwills cry.

O ye in whom intelligence is sound,
Let's honky tonk all night
Go on now, since we two have but one will;
I went to the country - just the other day

before the kindred couple’s piteous case,
Ever since the day you set me free
the glowing summit of the lofty tower,
Say hey, good lookin' - what ya got cookin'?

fall thou upon my head a thousand times.
The blues come around when the sun goes down
from one of those ark-tombs; hence I, in fear,
Old cupid just gave us a shove

My Leader stopped; and I to him, who still
But we'll meet again some day.
so likewise with my wearied strength did I;
Our story's so old again has been told

There on the green enamel opposite
But I know she waits and prays
O blind cupidity, O foolish wrath,
Then Jesus came like a stranger in the night

go on with them, for they will not be bad.
But where I go, I always know
wander so far from that which is its wont,
You only build me up to let me down

for I full thirty spans of him perceived,
The mean old freight train blues.
thought it advisable for us to leave.
There all my fears and tears were lost

it harmed thee not, when in the dark wood’s depths.
The time now ain't long; when the Saviour will come
he ’ll not prevent our going down this rock.
And think of my darlin'

Canto XXI

I thereupon arose, and showed myself
That showed thru the darkest of nights.
A longer stairway must be climbed; ’t is not
Will you please make up your mind

And then he said: “It now is time for us
Yes I knew the day I lost you
While I was gazing fixedly down yonder,
And ever since she tore 'em down

Deidamìa, dead, still mourns Achilles;
And I'm lo-o-onesome
which knows not man! Bethink you of the seed
If tomorrow never comes and the sun don't ever shine

The many people and unheard-of wounds
Where will you live after death
now one and now another, till their branch
A long time ago

Oh, how dismayed that Curio seemed to me,
So I don't care if tomorrow never comes.
All tongues would certainly fall short of it,
When your soul is weary and it seems you've lost your way

so likewise Geryon set us down below,
Someone has fell by the way
my town had its beginning otherwise,
And i know i'll not be lonesome,

but I beheld him with his legs held up.
NO NOT NOW, BUT MAYBE NEXT WEEK SOME - HOW.
Paris and Tristan see; and then he showed me,
The whole night through

while d’ Abbagliato squandered all his sense.
All the sunshine, all is gone
my Teacher and, behind his shoulders, I.
Last night I walked the floor

whence I: “Their meaning, Teacher, troubles me.
Well when I woke up this mornin',
“O ye that in a single flame are two,
Won't you sometimes think of me

There is a Gentle Lady up in Heaven,
To live forever more, just o'er on heaven's shore
its center hath, and on which Dis is seated,
But then you changed dear, you found someone new

And ever without resting was the dance
I made a mistake, dear, by tellin' you lies
the livid-colored stone was full of holes,
That's just a picture from life's other side

Among my menials he must needs descend,
Where all is joy, peace and love
I ’m placed thus low, because ’t was I who robbed
I know you're alone with your pride dear

Canto XXII

the hollow cup beneath the brow. And though,
If she drinks while you taught her and if she smokes you showed her how
though not with either Saracens or Jews,
I'm gonna tuck my worries underneath my arm

was angry with the royal blood of Thebes,
And writes my soul the message He wants me to know
dost thou stand there already, Boniface?
Oh so humble you should be when they come passing by

were shown to me the spirits of the great,
HOW CAN YOU REFUSE JESUS NOW.
to bring thence confirmation in the faith,
Someone has fell by the way

my Teacher and, behind his shoulders, I.
Jesus is calling, calling night and day
how I can Palestrina overthrow.
God only knows how it hurts me

by one of them; and instantly I said:
And she broke this heart of mine
“In this thing I was not alone, nor surely
I'm a rollin stone all alone and lost

“came any ever, by his own deserts,
I wandered so aimless life filled with sin
If yonder thou attain, thou ’lt clearly see
Lord you better keep it on your mind

might each his blessing give, if there he went.
I said "I'll go down, take a look at the crowd
“if from this wilderness thou wouldst escape;
I'll pretend I'm free from sorrow

the wounds thus made have all been closed again.
Are you walkin and a-talkin with the lord?
the banks, which are not burned, afford a path;
The snow falls 'round my window

of riches that are put in Fortune’s care,
Like echoes from the blue
Then of a sudden standing up, he cried:
The child was unhurt and my neighbor cried out:

And in that part through which our nourishment
Then you cry and ask the judge won't you please turn him loose
and Rachel, too, for whom he did so much,
Get the supper on the table

so twisted, that the weeping of the eyes
For the love that's beating there
down here by magic of that wild Erìchtho,
To Canaan's land I'm on my way

Canto XXIII

for Yes and No contend within my head.
So baby, just come along with me
these wrought their spells with herbs and images.
Her mama said: "No-o, she's my only daughter,"

Weeping itself allows not weeping there,
It seems that fate has made a vow
thou hadst in keeping in the joyful life,
On the banks of the old Pontchartrain.

their burden and the narrow path delayed them.
Then the gods would deny you on the great judgement day.
of traitor to thee in thy castle-towns,
Never was much fun to me

so that an otter he appeared to me.
It rides on rails of fear
gnawed in it by the water’s spiral course,
When you're home and darlin'

where that vale ended which had pierced my heart
just waiting by your telephone
each member of this company anew,
As I stood alone, with mem'ries of home

and were it now, it would not be too soon;
You pass right through then all when your New Orleans bound.
I, trusting him, was seized, and afterward
Packin' and unpackin' your junk

He answered: “As thou see’st, I ’m one who weeps.
Today as she walked arm in arm
seemed to be made of glass and not of water.
So this world would not be lost

beneath, for I ’m for more of them returning
Ev'rybody's yearnin' for somebody else
divides itself, while in the other case,
No matter how I struggle and strive

“here ’s one of Santa Zita’s Ancients! Put him
No use to sit at home and fine
till on the world another sun had dawned.
He smiled as we parted, cause he didn't know

While we were speeding through the stagnant trench,
I'll even make believe I never loved you
if in the lovely life I judged aright;
It's hard to know another's lips will kiss you

were foreordained unto the holy place,
Over there on that other shore.
and by disprizing Nature and His Goodness;
Why sometimes when we'd stay away till one or two or three

Ser Branca d’ Oria is, and many years
I got a feelin' called the blues, oh Lord
would fain excuse myself, and all the while
Said the little paper boy, there on the street

Canto XXIV

As yonder o’er Charybdis doth the sea,
Are the pictures from life's other side
so this one called on me, as master-leech,
YOU HAVE TREATED ME SO BAD,

when at the stars he gazed, or at the sea.
And i know there's some one waitin', with the sweetest how you are,
But when he saw that I did not withdraw,
Waitin' for a call from a big quiz show

we ever reached the lofty tower’s foot,
And call my name
with their own selves, nor let them touch the plant,
Ready to live in Paradise

not knowing what to do; then later on
The roses have faded, there's frost at my door
that so dost in our short life goad us on,
Those Broadway roses and prevalent sounds at too many parties and too many pals

stands still at all, lies prone a hundred years,
For I know that you'll never be true
the Phoenix dies, and then is born again,
To supply our every need

Soon as my Leader and I were in the boat,
It was there I knew I'd love you forever
so eager to advance the cubs, that wealth
So if you wanna have fun, come along with me

that those which Frederick clothed men with were straw.
The moon just went behind the clouds
he asked me for advice, but I kept still,
And when I'm go-one and at my grave you stand

in Mongibello’s smithy black with smoke,
The mean old freight train blues.
immediately stood up, and said to me:
I'll cry myself to sleep and wake up smiling

hence I, intent ahead, unbar mine eyes.
So run along, I know that you don't want me
how I could ever keep my own face dry,
You may ramble and ramble this whole wide world over

he heard the things which of his victory
He begged for the crumbs from the rich man to eat
Then “Oh, said I to him, “so may the other
Because she worshipped you

related, and heard mentioned, with regard.
Praying for sight
About strange punishments must I make verses,
Like the flowers in May, she withered away

he ’ll not prevent our going down this rock.
And to those who weep death comes cheap these men with broken hearts
to arm him so with food, lest stress of snow
When I argue back you pack and leave and when I don't you pout in grieve

Canto XXV

justly doth every woe proceed from him.
And no matter how much you boast and brag you can still learn a thing or two
and certainly my trust had been confirmed,
I have no place on this earth to call home

he thus is called by my high Tragedy;
Don't say you care, you know that you'll be lying
cried: “As I was alive, such am I dead!
Don't hurt me more, show my heart some respect.

and bloody slaver trickled o’er three chins.
I'm lost on the river
I and my Leader then passed further on
But I'm satisfied with you.

Before your grappling hooks take hold of me,
HOW CAN YOU REFUSE HIM NOW, HOW CAN YOU REFUSE HIM NOW,
About strange punishments must I make verses,
Why don't you say the things you used to say

were turned to Aesop’s fable, that wherein
Though his leg was very crippled
so fiercely mad did Athamas become,
It looks to me like I been cheated out of my rib

How justly, too, thy virtue makes awards!
Well, I said I would leave if you didn't change
they spoke but seldom and with gentle voice.
You better keep it on your mind (all the time)

that it would be too much, wert thou alive?
You'll be moanin' and a groanin',
When we had read of how the longed-for smile
Grab your dancin' shoes

she turns her sphere, and blest enjoys herself.
I still recall his words today.
that haste were more becoming thee than them.
I can't buy no beer.

he looks behind, and backward goes his way.
I can't escape from you.
and who, when by a sudden fear unmanned,
As I brushed your arm and walked so close to you

As champions oiled and nude are wont to do,
'Cause it knows I need you so
lowered before their eyes, and cut like those
I'm like a weepin-willow, while we're apart

now falls each star that rose when I set out,
Are you doin' this for spite
where I with ancient Rachel had my seat.
If today the sun should set on all my hopes and cares

Canto XXVI

“My son, the courteous Teacher said to me,
I'll look swell but you'll look sweller settin' the woods on fire
for he of fostering Rome and of her sway
Honky Tonkin', Honey Baby

there Socrates and Plato I beheld,
Thank God for ev'ry flower and each tree
And he shall drive her out of every town,
It's beautiful to see

of what thou wouldst; for they, since Greeks they were,
Sayin' mama please come home
the coin on which the Baptist’s form is stamped;
All his treasures of diamonds and gold

Love, which soon seizes on a well-born heart,
And there's trouble in your soul
And he to me: “The honorable fame,
When you're home and darlin'

and girds him with his tail as many times,
We're gonna have a new baby about the first of May
thou oughtest to be feared, who readeth here
Now I know I'll never find another sweetheart

that for its sake I lost both sleep and strength.
Now Jonah got along in the belly of the whale,
that at his feet he dropped his grappling hook,
I was walking in Savannah past a church decayed and dim

up in the world by his un-natural son.
Walk slowly down that long long path for soon I'll follow you
The heavens, in order not to be less fair,
If it had two pair of pants I would burn the coat

that in the second ring thou art, and wilt be,
I'll never see that gal of mine
upon the ground he stretched it to depart.
Last night I dreamed of heaven the land of eternal life

and thus like crystal visors wholly fill
No more darkness no more night
as thou perceivest in this nether Hell.
She just couldn't stand my disgrace

fastened upon his roasted face mine eyes,
You're Window Shoppin' that's all.
on this ring’s edge hath it appeared to us?
Jesus died for me long ago

the arms he plied he moveth now no more.
The river of life
“to where thou sayest usury offends
Way up in heaven above

such on that gloomy slope did I become;
Yes, i'm goin' back to dixie, that's the place i long to be,
and I, too, recommend him to thy care.’
What's the use to deny we've been living a lie

Canto XXVII

Focaccia; nor this fellow here, whose head
One you say, and ten I see
a windmill looks when seen from far away;
When all dead in Christ shall rise

that with thine eyes thou quite attain the face
I'm so lonesome I could cry
before the shore reveal itself to thee;
That you're ready to meet

and backward through his head withdraws his ears,
United in God's Kingdom, When The Book Of Life Is Read.
but I left none apparent there just now.
All I do is sit and sigh, oh Lord

from circle unto circle down through Hell;
Are you walkin and a-talkin with the lord?
Upon his shoulders right behind his nape
When the Pale Horse and his rider goes by?

Down at its bottom naked were the sinners;
And I buried my heart with her
for thereupon one coiled around his neck,
But one word led to another

or been a merchant in the Soldan’s land;
Why don't you spark me like you used to do
though shortly lasts the temper of her pen;
Why don't you write to me and say;

the first time I was grieved on thy account.
I like candy, I like cake, I like jam but goodness sake
he said to me, “brings out upon my face
Son of a gun we'll have big fun on the bayou

into the middle of the boiling fen.
Words that you told me
when, after laying hold on me, he said:
When you know I love you so

thou that, though breathing, go’st to see the dead!
This old log train
with waters and green leaves, was Ida called;
Her time has come to go

which fortify that region comfortless;
So baby, just come along with me
and let the country clown his mattock ply!
That's home sweet home to me,

speaking at greater length than I repeat,
On the dixie cannonball, on the dixie cannonball,
before my age had rounded out its noon.
dollar weighs ten, dollar weighs ten

began to quiver with a murmuring sound,
She said, "son, please don't leave me
O happy he whom He thereto elects!
With your dying breath

Canto XXVIII

whence, had there been more light, the next ravine
Those Broadway roses and prevalent sounds at too many parties and too many pals
has been; Polenta’s eagle so broods there,
I heard the angels singing songs of peace and rest

which caused a trembling in the eternal air;
How He brought salvation when He made me whole
there they lament the trick, because of which
For He's coming someday, to bear your soul away

My kindly Teacher then began to say:
the boys all whistle when she walks by.
I went along in thought; and he: “Perchance
And the love light no longer shines

emblazoned with an azure pregnant sow,
I remember back when you were nice and sweet
Then with a gentler mien he turned to me,
And scat right back to my pappy's farm

then with its teeth it wounded both his cheeks;
Rootie Tootie, she's my Thursday gal.
together with the bodies they have left
Now gentlemen that's my story my testimony stands

as round the former is the dismal moat;
We'll let bygones be forgotten souvenirs
both of the road and of the sympathy,
That's home sweet home to me,

there was no lamentation, saving sighs
For He's coming someday, to bear your soul away
with greater haste I therefore begged the spirit
And now we've reached the hour of parting

the frightful mouth, to which no sweeter psalms
Just a little old shanty by a railroad track,
‘A sinner of the thievish fire is this,’
I could hate you for theway I'm feelin'

o’er which it spreads, and, making it a marsh,
As though his heart would break
on this side of the angel-trumpet’s sound.
There was a time when I believed that you belonged to me

with the lament of him, and that was right,
I heard that lonesome whistle blow
to see him get a ducking in this broth,
If you're lovin' me like i'm lovin' you

a devil in his body, as did also
Lord I've tried and I've tried
so high or thick, whoe’er he may have been.
This prisoner here before you is a social enemy

A few lay on the ground upon their backs;
Sinner hear me when I say
the peasant, lacking provender, gets up,
I watched my dream world crumble like clay

My Leader kept his head bowed down awhile;
I've sent your saddle home.
and if in answering I was mute just now,
Where there will be no parting hand

so pleasing outwardly was its complexion;
Just like a blind man I wandered along
Out of the mouth of each a sinner’s feet
You are on my lonely mind

the treachery. But stretch thy hand here now,
I've got new fish to fry
On listening to them I was all intent,
Lord you better keep it on your mind

Penelope, could overcome within me
You better heed this warning,
I think, as on his crupper that one had,
I can't escape from you.

seated amid a philosophic group.
I Told A Lie To My Heart.
the state of those whom such a fortress holds,
Don't come back now It is too late

But who art thou, that musest on the crag,
When you're tired of breaking other hearts
a mighty tumult made, which sweeps around
There's no room in my heart for the blues

And one, who heard my Tuscan speech, cried out
And so my heart is paying now for things I didn't do
“and ask what fault thrust him down here; for I
If you do her wrong she'll leave this tonw

afraid to tell of without further proof;
What ev'rybod - y knew but me
The place, where to descend the bank we came,
While my precious darling's sleeping

Canto XXXVIII

And I, who gazed intently, saw a flag,
And I took a chance, and we happened to dance
when closed shall be the gateway of the future.
She just couldn't stand my disgrace

he heard the things which of his victory
And I won't be home no more.
By palsy some, perhaps, may thus have been
If the night is dark, you will soon see the day

I gathered up the scattered twigs and leaves,
I was there with my Saviour free from grief and strife
But so that thou mayst know who backs thee thus
Lord you better keep it on your mind

up to the river I abstained from speech.
I just can't see no reason why you bother with me,
Even as in autumn leaves detach themselves,
On the past let's close the door

am ready for whatever Fortune wills.
I'm leaving now
when in the world I wrote the lofty verses,
And that's all she wrote, Dear John,

which, ’gainst me coming, pushed me, step by step,
Some don't seem to care
its back and breast, as well as both its sides,
Baby, we fit like a glove

sees down along the valley where, perchance,
If your ever in the south lands and want to see the scenes
Therefore get up! O’ercome thy troubled breath
Ready to live in Paradise

my Teacher and, behind his shoulders, I.
So tell me gentlemen is it right to send her to a cell
then, toward each other turning, thus they spoke:
Her children safe from harm throughout the years tand then she went to sleep

so like a stone had I become within;
A House Without Love is not a home.
and that while in his body he was there.
On her little face was a look of despair,

I dared not from the path descend, to go
I is one and X is ten
but I can not suppress it here; hence, Reader,
Until the last one had returned she'd always keep a light

where it behooveth tyranny to groan.
With a drunken engineer
and stood dumbfounded, like a man who fears.
While my precious darling's sleeping

the ancient prow goes on its way, and cuts
When the Pale Horse and his rider goes by?
When we had gone so far ahead, that now
When the Sun was sinkin' low

Canto XXXIX

across the banks and trenches to the well,
Rootie Tootie, (Rootie Tootie)
meanwhile, was growing soft, and hard the other’s.
A House Without Love is not a home.

What was the master’s power who girded him,
When your dream world falls around you
the falsifiers she recordeth here.
FOR MY FRIEND IT WON'T SAVE YOUR POOR WICKED SOUL.

Thus shallower and shallower became
I love you, so swing wide your gate of love
My flesh had hardly been made bare of me,
I'll meet my loved ones there, in that land so bright and fair

Then people I beheld who from the stream
She's got that kind of lovin'
whose threshold unto no one is denied,
Like echoes from the blue

there lies a lake which is Benàco called.
Oh mother I'm leavin' you here alone
a windmill looks when seen from far away;
I know it filled her heart with pain

Now I would have thee know, ere thou go further,
We'll call them Mary and William
because Justice Divine so spurs them on,
Now I don't want you here anymore

if friendly were the universal King,
Oh, the woman on our party line's the nosiest thing
the bolt will cleave the mist in such a way,
Stick your head out the window and feel that southern breeze

And I said: “Teacher, wait now for me here,
In my dreams you're still my only darlin'
When I had heard those sorely troubled souls,
Rootie Tootie, she's my Thursday gal.

Thus on we went as far as to the light,
You are on my lonely mind.
from tuft to tuft he afterward descended
As I stood by her bedside, those last few moments

wherewith my tongue was never surfeited.
That showed thru the darkest of nights.
Etèocles was with his brother placed?’
My tires and tubes are doin' fine but the air is showin' through

have now gone by, since he was thus shut up.
And that's all she wrote, Dear John,
were fixed, had passed away, I turned them round
You've grown cold and no longer care for me

I bit in anguish both my hands. And they,
he just thought you need some sunshine and he lent it for a while.
All the first circle holds the violent;
I returned home, but I waited too long

Canto XL

After the woeful rout, when Charlemagne
And I'll be left here all a- lone.
it seemed as if their nimble legs were wings.
I can't buy no beer.

The latter streaked their faces with their blood,
Put on my Sunday suit, but I ain't goin' nowhere
The sinner then, who understood, feigned not,
A lad stood alone in tears

not heeding in himself his lofty office
Because it died When we were apart
“O thou that in the valley fortune-blest,
darlin I could never be ashamed of you.

and other straights, as soon as I was up,
I'm alone and oh, so blue tonight
even such a structure seemed I now to see;
Who failed to use common sense

from which its end can never be cut off,
Lead you to that promise land
first here, then there, they helped them with their hands,
My pants with dirt were sprinkled,

the causes were, and of the Papal Robe.
Get on your knees and pray.
His eyes were downcast, and his eyebrows shorn
(Mind your own business)

had named the place, nor fondness for my son,
Now it's a shame the way she keeps a good man broke.
seeing the cause which raineth down the blast,
A song I will sing

The latter, swimming, slowly wends his way,
I'm a number not a name
turning, meanwhile, his teeth against himself.
Can you smile and say

looked at each other, as one looks at truth.
Ev'rybody's lonesome for somebody else
away from him his just created shoulders,
You'll always know him by the lonesome fiddle

Already had I fixed mine eyes on his;
But we got married on the Tennessee Border.
the other two were to the latter joined
My life with you baby has been one hard knock

when “Now be careful there! my Teacher said,
On an island far away
fell dead, and when the ancient race of people,
To hide its face and cry

leaving behind them horrible contempt!
His servants will bring, a ring for my finger
which crosses here, I know not what it said;
Ev'ry time you get mad

Canto XLI

off easy, and even in other offices
Let's honky tonk all night
and cannot walk, but plunges here and there;
At night when I am sad and lonely

Ivy was never rooted to a tree
And turn in fire alarms
There never was an earthquake strong enough
His heart went to heaven,at the first fall of snow

With her at my departure I shall leave thee,
Darling, I could never be ashamed of you.
But none the less his language gave me fear,
I saw a teardrop on a rose.

to do according to the Marquis’ will,
Faded love and winter roses live and die in memory
and weary. Cloaks they had equipped with cowls
I watched my dream world crumble like clay

three Frisians would have made a useless boast;
With your dying breath
nor hast thou only now thereto disposed me.
Sinner hear me when I say

start to attack, or be reviewed, and even,
Each thing you've touched along the way will be a hallowed spot
that wicked beast reclining over there.
That showed thru the darkest of nights.

Thereat she ceased to speak, and I began:
She may have forsaken some other like me
my wise Guide leads me by a different path
This story happened

for afterward we heeded them alone.
Straight is the gate and narrow the way
to tell us who thou art, that dost so safely
I know that I would never be this blue

and drew me to himself from where I was.
Who had lost all of his money at play
out of the ice from midway up his breast;
My yesterdays haunt me, my weary heart cries

as far as where one goes no further down;
Now I don't wanna show you the door
and curb my genius more than I am wont,
I rocked from here and there

But since I should have burned and baked myself,
Love like ours should never die so darling let's turn back the years
Let Libya and her sand no longer boast;
And I'm lost on the river

There, to escape all human fellowship,
OF HOW OUR SAVIOR DIED, AS THEY NAILED HIS HANDS,
the heart, which still is honored on the Thames.
Thibodaux Fontaineaux the place is buzzin'

Canto XLII

but one of our black Cherubs said to him:
I'll never get out of this world alive
that either party shall be hungry for thee;
You only build me up to let me down

they are of every other destiny.
But she just wouldn't stay
when I of thee the sudden question asked.
Rootie Tootie, she's my Thursday gal.

replied: “To this condition I was come
The simplicity and shrewdness in his Ethiopian face, showed the wisdom and ignorance of a crushed, undying race.
that I could not have seen just where it was,
No use to sit at home and fine

but that shame made its threats to me, which renders
The corn meals gone and the meat's run out
Venèdico Caccianimico art;
There's nothin' as sweet as my baby

Then “Oh! said I, “art thou already dead?
She's got "purty" eyes of blue
and said: “My father, why dost thou not help me?
I can't help it if I'm still in love with you.

because, ere one return in front of him,
You just look through your cookbook
and weary. Cloaks they had equipped with cowls
Now, You're Gonna Change or I'm a-gonna leave.

they did not with due worship honor God;
With shoulders stooped and heads bowed low and eyes that stare in defeat
and Mantuans with respect to fatherland.
Like a piece of driftwood on the sea

through the dark air are ever pouring down;
And late in the evening
which overcame a hemisphere of gloom.
All I need is a bride who want's a big-hearted groom

and had I not so prematurely died,
Why don't you mind your own business
More fearful of the abyss I then became,
When the ev'nin' train goes by

“who took to bloodshed and to plundering.
She called my name o'er and o'er
they struck against each other; then, right there
Such love as Jesus did impart

The other two looked on, and each exclaimed:
If you make a snake mad he's sure gonna bite
that may be done to me, who know these things,
Maybe you've been cheated in the past,

And then, perhaps because of failing breath,
Only hold her hand and say goodbye
And I, afraid lest any longer stay
When we stand there in God's Kingdom and The Book Of Life Is Read.

Canto XLIII

We entered it without the least contention;
Praise the Lord, I'll have a new life
thine upper portion, planted like a stake,
When the sun was low

to burn to ashes, and no longer last,
Down the aisle with someone else you're walking
for Branca d’ Oria is not dead as yet,
I've fetched your saddle home.

“O thou that showest by a sign so beastly
YOU KILLED ALL THE LOVE I EVER HAD.
when it perceived us pass in front of it.
May you never be alone like me.

see to it that thou cleanse thee from their ways!
I saw a young man kneelin' there
“was empress over lands of many tongues.
I can speak my name aloud

as one would whom his grief had made insane.
Today's the day you start to pay
but with their heads and chests, and with their feet,
Drifting too far from the shore (from the shore)

when people in the great round trench I saw
You should have known you'd be alone
and who himself wrought vengeance for himself;
Rootie Tootie, she's my Friday gal.

the words of truth that she addressed to thee!
But you know you caused it all by telling lies
and with his oar beats whoso takes his ease.
We've known so much of happiness we've had our cup of joy

and me with speed, I dread the Evilclaws;
I like candy, I like cake, I like jam but goodness sake
The people in it were more numerous once,
Your cheatin' heart

without addressing me; he thus has caused me
I'll have a new home of glory eternal
the second Frederick and the Cardinal
When you and your baby have a fallin' out

trembling all over, kissed me on my mouth.
When God comes and gathers his jewels
“Why dost thou mirror thee so much on us?
You've known so long that you were wrong

a few, who by these sins polluted were.
My helper, he quit - for the lack of pay
to which I was, perhaps, too great a bane.
There sat my Saviour on his golden throne

wholly of stone, and of an iron hue,
For years I've lived without a meaning
but forced I am by thy transparent speech,
She never close her eyes to sleep till we were all in bed

Canto XLIV

both loud and faint, and smiting hands withal,
This prisoner here before you is a social enemy
adjudged thine accusation of thyself?
And deny my God and doon my soul

I can’t refuse what thou dost ask of me.
My eyes beheld a tragic story
whate’er defensive stir be made within.
You told me you loved me, you told me a lie

Who ever could, ev’n with unfettered words,
Lord you better keep it on your mind
encircled and sustained me with his arms;
And I know, people across the United States

and he who made our ladder with his hair,
Til my body's just a shell
the coin! said Sinon, “I ’m for one sin here,
Faded love and winter roses yearning hearts that used to be

A longer stairway must be climbed; ’t is not
When the lights all grow dim
even if the souls of serpents we had been.
The simplicity and shrewdness in his Ethiopian face, showed the wisdom and ignorance of a crushed, undying race.

and that while in his body he was there.
I can't keep the tears from my eyes
Verrucchio’s former Mastif and the new,
There sat my Saviour on his golden throne

and I compare more closely with a Giant,
Thibodaux Fontaineaux the place is buzzin'
“Our path must turn aside a little now,
I'll have a new body

nor yet can one at once repent and will,
There's a road that's straight and narrow
where that vale ended which had pierced my heart
You better start to treat me nice

since in ill-doing thou excell’st thy seed?
Or stood and watched with helpless hands while the heart inside you dies
And as the usurer takes another course,
It looks to me like I been cheated out of my rib

see how he writhes, and utters not a word!
For he was the one ray of sunshine
“If they can speak within those sparks, said I,
There'll be no more sorrow

the thing’s incredibility has made me
I could say it's over now
till through a rounded opening I beheld
I'd rather be in a deep, dark grave

No path was this for one who wore a cloak,
But still you blame me for all
that noble Sage, then, who knew everything,
Not a penny in my pocket

Canto XLV

would fain excuse myself, and all the while
Just a kid actin' smart
O rabble, that, ill-born beyond all people,
Cause I tell you right now the hide's gettin' sca'ce

Surely he asked for naught but ‘Follow me.’
I've been a fool about you, for way too long
“The anguish of the people here below,
Lord, I've been waitin' too long

With her at my departure I shall leave thee,
She left LA this mornin' burnin' up the right of way
and if in answering I was mute just now,
I know you're alone with your pride dear

when lo, another, which behind it came,
Please heed His call and in sin don't fall
who yonder grapples sinners with his hook!
WHEN FLOWERS ARE BLOOMIN BENEATH THE MOON

beside his head, protruded from the pit.
And on party nights when we come home she often sat and read
If to know who I am concern thee so,
And my heart's so sad, for the words I read there

my garment’s hem, exclaimed: “How wonderful!
When the sky shall open and this earth melt away
lengthen as much, as those were growing short.
It seems my life is through

was causing him to keep his lips apart,
Just remember there's a man to blame and that man might be your son
I ’d have thee swallow now my thought of her.
When you're tired of breaking other hearts

who is that great one who seems not to mind
So heavy is my load
with eyes askance, and uttered not a word;
And wishes he was still an old pine tree.

that one is high, and low the following one;
Go on and break you Crazy Heart.
or aught else lying hidden in the sea,
Will come from the sky

that I had never heard him use the like:
I'll even make believe I never loved you
come toward us through the water thereupon,
My honey coated sweetie pie

clutched tightly by the sinews of his feet.
She said, "son, please don't leave me
the Centaur said, “I wish thee to believe
Have you finished your building in Glory

when from Jehoshaphat they here return
There's be no pain or sorrow, no tears will e'er be shed
“who hath his head within, and plies his legs
Left my gal and left my home

Canto XLVI

As little flowers by the chill of night
I got the ho-on-ky tonk blues.
his haughty undertaking he attempted
Early next mornin' as the crowd passed by

Because I severed those who thus were joined,
Filled with selfishness and greed
And he to me then: “After struggling long
The cow broke in the field and eat up the beans

both how and why I ’d have thee hear from me.
Well, you're just in time to be too late
so eager to advance the cubs, that wealth
And each precious vow you tried to keep

to weep? Awake they were, and now the hour
But last night I heard you crying in your sleep
and came into our hemisphere; perhaps
And waited for your call

and Moses the law-giver and obedient;
There's nothin' as sweet as my baby
should give the Novarese a victory,
You should see the people stare

above extends, and draweth in below.
So I won't be home no more
who formerly possessed Hautefort, that thou,
It's the California Zephyr, the Union Pacific Queen

His weighty words then drove me to the point,
My life with you baby has been one hard knock
was fiercely kicking out with both his feet.
Where the soul........never dies

Among my menials he must needs descend,
And I just don't like this way of livin'.
Each turned his eyes the other way; and he
That dreams will soon come true

Without another word he fled away;
It's that Pan American on her way to New Or-leans.
soiled by the self same sin when in the world.
But I guess you're the two-timin' kind

who saw my Leader coming back, the sooner
Each thing you've touched along the way will be a hallowed spot
as is the round wall which encircles it.
Now, You're Gonna Change or I'm a-gonna leave.

behind me, is still visible above.
Yea! My Bucket's Got A Hole In It
advancing further o’er the woeful edge,
That waits beside the track

Into the fourth ditch we descended thus,
A trusting heart had just been broken
and said: “Go on, for I am strong and bold!
What can I do, love, with my heart

Canto XLVII

but rising thence was quite impossible,
Oh don't you know that Jesus died to wash your sins away
I ’d be, hadst thou already been obeyed;
Like a hog a rootin' up under a fence

how many tender thoughts and what desire
There's nothin' as sweet as my baby
a free state half, and half a tyranny.
I could smile and say that I don't care

the title which the voice of one proclaimed,
I rocked away out on the ocean
My Teacher said: “Our answer will we give
'Cause there ain't a hound dog in this state that can hold a light to me

that more than one tongue in the world is spoken.
Baby, rock, rock on down the line
but rising thence was quite impossible,
dollar weighs ten, dollar weighs ten

He at the serpent looked, and it at him;
It seemed like the whole world was lost
received in waging war with Robert Guiscard,
Out on this river

for vulgar is the wish to hear such things.
You'll stand in God's Kingdom, When The Book Of Life Is Read.
and bound he is, and shaped like this one, save
When everything goes wrong

Even now thy thoughts were coming among mine
It rides on rails of fear
Under each face two mighty wings stretched out,
AND WHEN I ASKED HER TO LET ME IN, HERE'S ALL SHE SAID TO ME.

When they were somewhat pacified again,
It was nothing of course
Since love for my own native place constrained me,
We'll order up two bowls of chili settin' the woods on fire

sees down along the valley where, perchance,
cause I'm crying for you dear
“Spread we the nets, he cried, “that I may take,
What can I do - you win again.

Thus o’er the dusky waves they wend their way;
Then your life will be eternal when you dwell with Him atlast.
that he would tell me who was with him there.
Let's pretend that time has stopped and I didn't go away

shades borne along upon the aforesaid storm;
Just hang your little head and cry,
through earthquake or through failure of support;
Don't come back now It is too late

had been the light beneath the moon, since first
Lord you better keep it on your mind
gave me this new commission; he is not
I can't escape from you.

Canto XLVIII

because, ere one return in front of him,
Then one day a man put his hand on my arm
One is the woman who charged Joseph falsely;
But we were all too young back then to understand the reason why

who rolled his eyes as if he meant to strike,
I made a mistake, dear, by tellin' you lies
whereat three spirits came and stood below us,
Just like she used to do

one stood before me filled with mud, and said:
Won't you sometimes think of me
when people in the great round trench I saw
Wedding bells are ringing in the chapel

while in the present ye do otherwise.
Well I heard the dishes crashin',
and the others who were set on doing good,
I Can't Help It If I'm Still In Love With You ...

O cloak that wearies through eternity!
I walked up the steps and I peeked in the door
Tell it from there, or else I draw my bow.
No matter where you wander, darlin'

They all look up to him, all honor him;
We'll sit close to one another up one street and down the other
All covert practices and hidden ways
We'll sit close to one another up one street and down the other

wherein the boiled were crying out aloud.
And I buried my heart with her
by sign of either land or sky, set out
(Mind your own business)

Before your grappling hooks take hold of me,
Well Lord I got 'em,
began to quiver with a murmuring sound,
There'll be no more strife

along with them, intent on their sad plaint;
I don't care who thinks we're silly you'll be daffy and I'll be dilly
I was created by the Might divine,
God knows it died the day you left

upon the other side, and King Latinus,
I've had it proven to me,
that Attila who was a scourge on earth,
AN YOU TELL YA SELF TONIGHTS THE NIGHT

kept swelling up, and settling back compressed.
When your dream world falls around you
if it please that one; for with him I go.
So, Why Don't You Love Me like you used to do.

that through my memory it is circling still;
Death may be lingering near.
A shade then at the tomb’s uncovered mouth
Sinner hear me when I say

Canto XLIX

But since I should have burned and baked myself,
And he let you keep and love it til your hearts were bigger grown
on burning paper which is not yet black,
You better keep it on your mind (all the time)

“Now stay thy steps, and on thee let the sight
These blues have got me cryin'
thought it advisable for us to leave.
Your cheatin' heart

and if thou weepest not, at what art wont
And scat right back to my pappy's farm
this wild and rough and stubborn woodland was,
Daniel in the lion's den,

as doth a bird to its recalling lure.
I can see the light of day
Then said my Leader: “He ’ll not wake again
These blues have got me cryin'

there ’d be no more returning up above.
Now I'm sad, my heart is cryin',
I understood that to this kind of pain
Cause you can't mend my broken heart

But that thou scrape more gladly from my face
Your daddy's mad; He's done got pee-eeved
reverberated through the starless air;
And my Ma-in-law just moved in to stay

that art concealed down yonder, thy Romagna
To give you a heart true and real
which caused a trembling in the eternal air;
Moon in all your splendor knows only my heart

This marsh, from which the mighty stench exhales,
She was her daddy's only daughter
But who art thou, that musest on the crag,
With a welcome on the door

Then, having talked among themselves awhile,
There is no end, I can't pretend
but raised himself, as on a ship a mast.
You'll cry and cry

was quiet and erect, and now away from us
The nights are cool and I'm a fool.
in soul he bathes already in Cocytus,
If she drinks while you taught her and if she smokes you showed her how

which from me thus hath torn away my leaves,
And as I watched, I cried in sorrow
but not so, that I should not fear the sight,
Sinner hear now what I say

when days are cold, in full and wide-spread flocks;
Baby, it's time for me to rearrange
whence, had there been more light, the next ravine
You should see the people stare

Canto L

this mass of rock had not yet fallen down.
Grab your dancin' shoes
he heeded with so glad a look throughout
A song of old San Antone

upon his hosts, unbroken to the ground;
Ev'rybody's lonesome for somebody else
When by that gathering I had thus been eyed,
In this wicked ole world today

now one and now another, till their branch
You are on my lonely mind.
I went along in thought; and he: “Perchance
Cry, oh, lord.

is bathed by waters which therein find rest.
His heart went to heaven,at the first fall of snow
inside the entrance he examines sins,
That always when we got back home we'd find her waitin' there

“O Giàcomo it said, “da Sant’Andrea,
Jambalaya and a crawfish pie and filé gumbo
even as a mother, by the noise aroused,
You said that you no longer loved me

and if thou weepest not, at what art wont
Such a beautiful dream
where for a thousand there should refuge be;
When I get to Glory, I'm gonna sing, sing, sing

one stood before me filled with mud, and said:
Ev'rybody's dreamin' about somebody else
before my age had rounded out its noon.
And there's trouble in your soul

nor let your foul and loathsome punishment
Hows about keepin' steady company?
grows shallow more and more on this side here,
Well shut my mouth, i'm a'headin' south, on the dixie cannon-ball

the vestry known for its fair ornaments;
That's home sweet home to me,
who from behind were fiercely whipping them.
Yea! My Bucket's Got A Hole In It

girdles the woeful city round about,
And then maybe these tears
which fortify that region comfortless;
And on party nights when we come home she often sat and read

out of the seed of ants restored themselves;
Praise the Lord I saw the light.
“O foolish creatures, said he then to me.
Hi, neighbors, this is our new album

and all the rest that sea bathes round about.
And the soul.........never dies.
lies crushed beneath the blow which envy gave it!
And clouds overshadow the sky

Canto LI

Thereat his pride received so great a fall,
But that's all done, I've changed my mind
not of the rest, for they should not be feared.
Well I left my home down on the rural route

so, one by one, the evil seed of Adam
I have no place on this earth to call home
those townsmen who rebuilt her afterward
So I can get me somethin' to eat

each turned, and rolling back his weight, cried out:
You better keep it on your mind (all the time)
Her eyes were shining brighter than a star,
Sneak it on over (move it on over)

we now are sullen in the swamp’s black mire.
She's sweeter than wine and brother she's mine
and then proceed according to his pace.
Boy you can't win no matter if you're right

what time the Giants caused the Gods to fear;
And now I ain't gonna love you anymore.
from Monte Veso takes a separate course
My darkest night will turn to day

in the sweet air that ’s gladdened by the sun,
So many times you've proved that in the past
“and if you ’d have me sit with you, I will,
The scene was a crowded courtroom and the judge a stern old man

which closes one side of the following trench.
Early next mornin' as the crowd passed by
and all the others whom thou seest here
But I know a man that didn't try to get along,

than this disease, which strips my face of flesh.
When you're wearing striped britches,
Speaking of other things my Comedy
Now I know I'll never find another sweetheart

after some counsel taken with himself,
And then she failed to shine my shoes,
“wrong were we not to punish Theseus’ raid.
Of old age and a blushing young bride

back toward the ancient Poet turned my steps.
It's the California Zephyr, the Union Pacific Queen
the first, who had thereto been most opposed.
'Cause My Bucket's Got A Hole In It

A painted people found we there below,
I can't keep the tears from my eyes
Alas, what wounds I saw upon their limbs,
I promise you baby that I'll be good

before replying, down upon his back
What in the confounded cat hair you want me to do
bristling with fear, when, gazing back intent,
My shirts they came up wrinkled,

Canto LII

While downward I was leaning still intent,
Deep within my heart lies a melody
Then more than ever yet did I fear death,
The snow falls 'round my window

“Have pity on me, I cried out to him,
She leaves Cincinnati headin' down that Dixie line
it rushes headlong down; and so, perhaps,
Jambalaya and a crawfish pie and filé gumbo

though not that any be reclothed therewith;
But I knew her love would never set me free
Both old and slow were I and my companions,
BUT THEIRS A FLY THAT'S A LIVEN RIGHT

as toward the bellies of the other two
Because it died When we were apart
collect them at the foot of my sad bush!
Your daddy's mad; He's done got pee-eeved

and which hath more than once increased your pain?
But - we're still a-livin' - so EVER'THING'S Okay.
and thus was causing pain to three of them.
If you're thinkin' of me like i'm thinkin' of you

“O me, Agnello, what a change is thine!
"The bad girl who lived down the street."
by demon force, which pulls him to the ground,
Heart filled with strife

they form, and through this narrow duct descend
We were so happy, darlin' we two
Thereat were quieted the woolly cheeks
But now you are gone it's over and so

And as their wings bear starlings on their way,
Oh you're the one that was unfair,
the left one such to look at, as are those
But they'll never never take her love from me.

as doth the hectic, who, because of thirst,
Stop doin' all the things that you oughten too
“Dost thou, perhaps, think Athens’ duke is here,
All my heart has lost a feeling

and he had of his rump a trumpet made.
Six more miles and leave my darlin',
bring us and our requests into contempt,
'Cause I'm satisfied with you.

he firmly grasped the shaggy flanks, and then
Well I'm in love I'm in love with a beautiful gal
Meantime my Leader on his way was going,
We lived in a place

will cause thy triumph on the lofty seat.’
To the tune of the ALABAMA WALTZ.
and toward us they were knitting close their brows,
You go get yourself a man that wants to fight

Canto LIII

and be not thou afraid, for any harm
It's headin' for destruction now
Israel, with both his father and his sons,
I'll just set back and watch you,

he had attained the other butting place.
And clouds overshadow the sky
And thereupon, as if hot wax they were,
And claim up your soul

bristling with fear, when, gazing back intent,
She had to know that we were safe before she went to rest
now with their paws, and with their muzzles now,
The congregation's waitin' for the preacher

but bore me to the summit of the arch,
No matter how I struggle and strive
Then quieted a little was the fear,
That meant more to me than thou

art come, scorn not to tell us who thou art.
With out the taste of water... cool, water.
did I remove my eyes. For as their prongs
the boys all whistle when she walks by.

Love to a death in common led us on;
And hung a sign on my front gate
for at a gateway less concealed than this
You wouldn't stay away half as much as you do

he threw it down into the greedy throats.
I told my paw I'm going steppin out and get the
which said: “Pope Anastasius I contain,
haul up on a crack up on a wheelbarrow blackstone

I think that he had risen upon his knees.
Hey Roly Poly eatin' corn and taters hungry every minute of the day
These churchmen were, who have no hairy covering
As though his heart would break

I heard one say to me: “Look where thou walkest!
Your memory is chained to me
and now to middle-tierce the sun returns.
And once she told me when you're grown to women and to men

On my return to consciousness, which closed
Down the aisle with someone else you're walking
thine outward image I would not reflect
Shake it on over (move it on over)

Justice inspired my high exalted Maker;
Will you please make up your mind what you want me to do
Thereon I turned my back but yestermorn;
Jesus died there on the cross

and visible as is a straw in glass;
When the time rolls around for me to lay down and die
this man can give what most is longed for here;
Today I passed you on the street

Canto LIV

Oh, how dismayed that Curio seemed to me,
I tried so hard,my dear,to show that you're my every dream
and, dreaming, wishes that he dreamt, and thus,
A House Without Love is not a home.

for though she breed chelỳdri, jàculi,
And I'll never be bad no more
whereby the sand was set on fire, as tinder
LORD I WENT TO THE DOCTOR, HE TOOK ONE LOOK,

as seeing falsely doth a shying beast.
For you are the one I want, my darlin', can't you see
hatred toward him thou eatest, tell me why,
When i cross them smokey mountains. i'll be countin' every mile,

and said: “Take hold of that one next, but first
I just can't help lovin' you
is not at present, and she never was,
Now I'm so happy no sorrow in sight

that it would be too much, wert thou alive?
You'll dig up the money or you'll work the streets
and the other two my canto names above.
I heard that lonesome whistle blow

so doth that blast the evil spirits bear;
I guess that I - should not complain
opened, before the rest, his throat, whose neck
'Neath a cold gray tomb of stone

felt by the throngs, which many were and great,
There sat my Saviour on his golden throne
was not a petty, but a first rate grafter.
God certainly got a hold of me.

to where a crag projected from the bank.
It'll be fought at Armageddon, it shall be a sad, sad day.
before the foolishness of Casalodi
But dear I hope you're happy just the same

her paramour, when he had said ‘Have I
Why Don't You Love Me like you used to do.
the satirist, the one that cometh next;
Won't you sometimes think of me

might be, perchance, disdainful of thy words.
Sinner hear me when I say
I come to take you to the other shore,
With your dying breath

fall thou upon my head a thousand times.
But now you are gone it's over and so
whereby and how did Love concede to you
That you've been seen - a-runnin' 'round

before the Trojans’ eyes, the earth was opened!
There sat my Saviour on his golden throne
I sorrowed then, and now again I sorrow,
Mary, she rocked him, her darlin to sleep

Canto LV

and wished to ask thee: ‘Who is in the flame
(Mind your own business)
As champions oiled and nude are wont to do,
The fire fell from Heaven, I fell to the floor

cannot be held, flows out of it perforce,
There ya have it, friends
he thunders, Jupiter is threatening still.
But there'll be no teardrops tonight.

ne’er with all Ethiopia did she show,
As I stood by her bedside, those last few moments
who whined and groaned, and with their muzzles puffed,
AS WE JOURNEY ALONG, ON LIFE'S WICKED ROAD,

they give the warning which bids mariners
Watching the setting sun
unless thou bark? What devil touches thee?
Just a spark of the love that used to be

but with them there he did not long remain,
I've never seen a night so long
calls him again, that death may be delayed.
But now I know your heart is shackled to a memory

his master waited, or by one who kept
'Neath a cold gray tomb of stone
Ill-giving and ill-keeping took from them
If you make your baby mad and she says goodbye

her harlot eyes from Caesar’s dwelling-place,
She's a makin' nauts she's makin' time just watch her swing and sway
My Teacher said: “He, yonder, Cacus is,
All my dreams have died and vanished

and fell as falls a body that is dead.
even though you proved to be untrue
hence, as she lists, let Fortune turn her wheel,
Cause I ain't gonna call you any more.

One day, for pastime merely, we were reading
So why should we try anymore
is kindled under steel, to double pain.
I'm gonna throw my date book over the fence

in the Gardingo’s neighborhood appears.
In this world, I'm just a drifter
Thereat my Leader spoke with so much force,
I like candy, I like cake, I like jam but goodness sakes

and there let him remain; for at the foot
NO FRIENDS IT WON'T SAVE, YOUR POOR WICKED SOUL.
An old fame in the world proclaims them blind,
Everyone here tried to warn me

Canto LVI

and that high peak from which the Tiber springs.
Go and leave me alone with the blues
I saw Electra with companions many,
Now I'm sad, my heart is cryin',

But when in the sweet world thou art again,
Turn back before its to late
once tookst a thousand lions as thy prey,
And now the bitter teardrops start

when he arrives, whom I believed thou wast,
KAW-LIGA, was a lonely Indian never went nowhere
divides itself, while in the other case,
Me gotta go pole the pirogue down the bayou

it seemed the one who by the pain was pierced;
Now I'm too busy pitchin' woo
nor let your foul and loathsome punishment
Just how many homes are broken tonight

“what thou hast heard against thyself; pay now
Another man's wife
came on so slowly, that new company
And slander your name all over town

Of Cadmus, and of Arethusa, too,
While you set alone and cry.
that I could in a hundred years advance
His heart was set on the Indian maiden with the coal black hair

is joined thereto, whence special trust is born;
Then read aloud just to myself
cried: “Here the Holy Face availeth not!
One-sy, two-sy, zig-sy and

Five times rekindled, and as often quenched,
Too many tears thru it all
mantled already with that planet’s rays
So don't take off your hat and coat

he said to me, “for I shall win the fight,
I've got a blue love in my heart.
of snakes, and of so weird a kind, that still
I just couldn't tell her that I ran away

and wholly over Caurus lies the Wain,
For someday you'll find that I'm not there.
Thereat my Leader spoke with so much force,
To a land of groans and pain

O Aretines; raids, too, have I beheld,
And get that chip off of your shoulder
and backward through his head withdraws his ears,
Tonight my darlin's sleepin'

for, as I thought it over, I gave up
I haven't had the chance that other kids had
And he to me: “See how I think of this.
I'm so lonesome I could cry

Canto LVII

morality, and full of every vice,
I prayed there and God had His way. (For-)
because of which I said: “These torments, Teacher,
Then will you be ready to go home

and if in answering I was mute just now,
You know she didn't ask to be brought to
that on the right twixt white and yellow seemed;
There's someone who's restin' alone

the penalty which sparkles on you thus?
Won't you sometimes think of me
such that all eyes would be repelled by it.
I got a little gal that wears her hair up high,

As in a circle, round that road we went,
God certainly got a hold of me.
Yet dead men’s feet are not thus wont to do.
I give my all and sit and yearn

and such good daring coursed into my heart,
LORD I NEVER KNEW A MAN COULD FEEL SO BAD,
who died for lovely Dejanira’s sake,
Last night I dreamed of heaven and I saw my mother there

a deed once falsely put upon another.
I know that she's waiting in vain
beneath, for I ’m for more of them returning
The way I do

vermilion was on every side, and said:
There's no room in my heart for the blues
gave forth a wind, whence flashed vermilion light
I love to see the towns a-passin' by

till over us the ocean’s waves had closed.
I got the ho-on-ky tonk blues.
and fit to cover him and me. Renewed
My baby stepped out while I was gone

“but who art thou that didst inquire of us?
KAW-LIGA - A, just stood there and never let it show
Already into one had both heads turned,
Where you´ll never, never die

of one of his companions, oped his mouth,
Then read aloud just to myself
and turned against him all their grappling hooks;
The children're all with you now the kindly doctor said

Ill-giving and ill-keeping took from them
I'd rather be in a deep, dark grave
Guido Bonatti see; and see Asdente,
In old Alabam'

But I remained to look upon the throng,
All day long
I saw a shape, which would have chilled with wonder
I'll crawl back to her on my knees

Canto LVIII

Then the great provost turned toward Farfarello,
We can find us a brand new recipe?
So may God let thee, Reader, gather fruit
when slowly through the window came a plaintive funeral hymn

let, then, those Ladies give my verse their aid,
No more lookin' - I know I been tookin'
The people in it were more numerous once,
Golden hair and big blue eyes she could win a beauty prize

the third is Ovid, Lucan is the last.
There sat your picture all alone
will be our knowledge from that moment on,
Nothing seems to turn out right

Her eyes were shining brighter than a star,
Then there'll be no teardrops tonight.
Each turned his eyes the other way; and he
You'll spend your days in sorrow

out to their feeding drives his tender sheep.
BUT YOU HAVE TREATED ME SO BAD,
They then broke up their wheel, and in their flight
I was sad and blue, I was down-hearted, too

“Of Navarre’s kingdom I a native was.
I'll listen for whistle
and wherefore free and daring art thou not,
For I know my prayers have not been in vain

about the faith which conquers every error;
All my dreams have died and vanished
both of the road and of the sympathy,
Baby, rock, let's rock on down the line

in Heaven, on earth, and in the evil world!
And smile don't regret but live and forget
And he replied: “Thou certainly dost please me
You said you could live without loving

and fearing lest my talking might annoy him,
With tears in my eyes, dear, I begged you to stay
and, as he came, said: “What does this avail him?
Ev'ry thing I loved, I lost, dear

when I was in it did it laden seem.
But don't trust any woman you meet
His head is formed of finest gold, his arms
I watched my dream world crumble like clay

who in the figure of a cross was stretched
Darlin' if our romance ends let us be the best of friends
whereat, so great the anger mastering them,
and don't go to criticizn' the one what knows the best.

e’er to the left descending toward the bottom,
As though his heart would break
to learn who that wretch is, who thus
On the banks of the old Pontchartrain.

Canto LIX

that every Bianco will thereby be wounded.
Lord I love to hear her when she calls me sweet da-a-addy
Why climbst thou not the Mountain of Delight,
There's nothin' as sweet as my baby

make themselves heard by means of woeful sighs?
I've been a fool about you, for way too long
“wrong were we not to punish Theseus’ raid.
NO NOT NOW, BUT MAYBE NEXT WEEK SOME - HOW.

to torture one man for the people’s sake.
My head was swelled up so doggone big I couldn't get it through my front door
affect thee, where the cold locks up Cocytus.
Ev'rybody's lonesome for somebody else

Why climbst thou not the Mountain of Delight,
I often sit and wonder
The tear-stained ground
Are away beyond the skies

even so, since from the body of the flame
Everybody says you let me down
So may God let thee, Reader, gather fruit
My darkest night will turn to day

All of a sudden issued forth these words
I can't escape from you.
that so dost in our short life goad us on,
There he was lying but he felt no pain

bearing within us fumes of surliness;
To spend eternity
the many unheard of toils and pains I saw,
Grab your dancin' shoes

I cannot say; but this one had in front
down behind the trees and the moon is slowly rising
“Leader, said I, “his death by violence,
Why can't I free your doubtful mind and melt your cold, cold heart?

this wild and rough and stubborn woodland was,
If you're meant for me like i'm meant for you
and both my parents were of Lombardy,
Oh! Lord I see his burdens are greater than mine.

that more than one tongue in the world is spoken.
Move over cold dog cause a hot dog's moving in
in wrath, he took the pointed thunderbolt,
Ohio and Kentucky Tennessee and Alabam, the delta state of

but not so far, but I could dimly see
And wishes he was still an old pine tree.
“was empress over lands of many tongues.
To give you a heart true and real

for thee, that known it is by all the world!
On the dixie cannon- ball
I have an arm that ’s loose for needs like this.
So run along, I know that you don't want me

Canto LX

whereby they glowed with such intensity,
I heard that lonesome whistle blow
and two in one they were, and one in two;
Well Lord I got 'em,

My Leader said to me: “’Gainst Jove Most High
She leaves the city of the angels headin' for ole Santa Fe
seemed weary to me; then methought I saw
Now I lay awake, dear, with tears in my eyes

As is that downfall on the hither side
She leaves the city of the angels headin' for ole Santa Fe
And I to him: “Among such men as these
Just a picture from life's other side

“Arch-heretics are with their followers here
I watched my dream world crumble like clay
“Before thou enter any further, know
For I know that you'll never be true

thus Plutus with his clucking voice began;
What pain He suffered there
Men were we once, and now are stocks become;
I knew you couldn't win, I told you from the start

‘Why, Beatrice,’ she said, ‘true Praise of God,
Won't you sometimes think of me
shooting each soul that from the blood emerges
Each night when the pale moon is shining

which bellows as the sea doth in a storm,
And our little home was like a paradise
which slightly slopes. My Leader then, and I,
I walked up the steps and I peeked in the door

before it flows into its lowly bed,
But they left him to die like a tramp on the street.
whom thou describest as so whelmed with woe.
The hummin' of the drivers was my lullaby,

so that, though blistered, it did not prevent
We'll be strong enough to face our last goodbye
The Evangelist was thinking of your shepherds,
She left LA this mornin' burnin' up the right of way

takes from the very place in which I sinned
It makes me laugh and it makes me cry
foreseeing, she decides, and carries on
If sugar seems sweet then you ought to meet

When by that gathering I had thus been eyed,
They are tears of sorrow and tears of delight,
that to the ends of earth their fame was noised.
That I'd be happy if we'd part

in that I answered him in this strain only:
Such a beautiful dream
and writhed all over; then Fra Catalàn,
Ev'rybody's lonesome for somebody else

Canto LXI

as if it were not, longs for that which is;
People steal, they cheat and lie
which hinders Pisans from beholding Lucca,
What a fool I was to go and break the trust she gave

so close together, that their hair was mixed.
But I let a gal make a fool of me
distress thee, for, whatever power he have,
Oh baby rock...rock on down the line

As, when a fog is thinning off, one’s gaze
Lord, I've tried and I've tried
I knew not one of them; but I perceived
Praise the Lord, I'll have a new life

people were running, nude and terrified,
Will I always be a dreamer dreaming of the used to be
More than a thousand o’er the gates I saw
There's a tear in my beer

opposed to that the great dry land o’ercovers,
We're getting closer to the grave each day
Thy very language makes thee manifest
Sets my sinful soul on fire

Now go thy way; and since thou livest still,
You look just like an angel but you haven't got wings,
Then each and all of them drew on together,
We'll take in all the honky tonks tonight we're havin' fun

who is that great one who seems not to mind
'Cause My Bucket's Got A Hole In It
Guido Bonatti see; and see Asdente,
Heavenly beauty all around

from what they purposed freed himself thereby.
Shoutin' get up the oxens
who come from there, where valeward flows the Nile.
When you'll need someone who will care

so from the band where Dido is they issued,
Like a flop-eared mule that ain't got no sense
When I perceived at last that I had reached
I thought I'd make her happy if I stepped aside

seized me so strongly for his love of me,
Lord I've tried and I've tried
now one and now another, till their branch
Ev'ry evenin' when the sun goes down

When we were come to where the thigh turns round,
That's all she wrote, Dear John,
And as a flame on oily things is wont
Every morning

even as my Leader had commanded me,
But they'll never never take her love from me.
and when to heaven its horses rose erect,
But honey among tigers you'd be queen

Canto LXII

excess of stench the deep abyss exhales,
KAW-LIGA - A, just stood there and never let it show
devised by him to cast himself below!
Darling let's turn back my years and go back to yesterday

so this one called on me, as master-leech,
In this world, I'm just a drifter
They each and all were lying on the ground,
I just dropped by to tell you that I wish you happi-ness,

his wife then with the other drowned herself.
You may ramble and ramble this whole wide world over
Thus from the first of circles I went down
When He says come unto Me, will your soul be clean and free

had named the place, nor fondness for my son,
'til I found myself envired in a little colored pew.
it said to me, “recall me, if thou canst;
I've lost faith in dreams somehow

One and the selfsame tongue first wounded me,
Cause last night I heard you crying in your sleep
none waited for the second, or the third.
And you will hear Him if you'll just pray

were foreordained unto the holy place,
We're gonna have a new baby about the first of May
even so the upper on the other set
The river of life

depart not; but let one of you inform us
A car speeded by and the screamin' of brakes
if I am tempted to a little talk.
If the night is dark, you will soon see the day

to nether Hell I came, that other time,
Then I recall how my Jesus died
These words of gloomy color I beheld
Once I was happy as I could be

for which thou didst not fear to seize by fraud,
These blues have got me cryin'
mixed in a single face, where both were lost.
When you're tired of breaking other hearts

where thou shalt hear the shrieks of hopelessness
But we quarled and now we're through my little darlin'
and to Antaeus came, who full five ells,
To supply our every need

but I left none apparent there just now.
Hear that lonesome whippoorwill
they smote them with their hands, and cried so loud,
Lord, I'm in Georgia doin' time

Let us leave him alone, nor talk in vain;
On the banks of the old Pontchartrain
they did not with due worship honor God;
And I Just Don't Like This Kind Of Livin'.

Canto LXIII

till we had reached the first place on the crag,
Baby, we're really in love
Stuck in the slime, they say: “Sullen we were
(Mind your own business)

he to the third said: “I ’d have Buoso run,
I'll be your baby
along a ditch which from it takes its shape.
So you fool ev'ry new love you find

After a little run both father and sons
And call my name
he going on ahead, and I behind,
When God dips His pen of love in my heart

hence look around thee well, and things thou ’lt see,
Are you doin' this for spite
that he a liar is, and sire of lies.
As I sit here alone in my cabin

for Christian were all enemies of his,
I like candy, I like cake, I like jam but goodness sakes
and with his oar beats whoso takes his ease.
Then you'll moanin'; Moa-oanin' The Blues.

or other inhibition binding man,
I'm going home, I'm going home
“whence dwells in you this overweening pride?
I took your letters from the shelf

when saying ‘I was there’ shall do thee good,
Plea-ease - stay away from my heart
things that are far from us; to that extent
United in God's Kingdom, When The Book Of Life Is Read.

and if another troop should meet you, cause it
Dear friend there'll be no sad farewells
awake against his will, as each oft plied
I'm leaving now

where he behind him left his ill-strained nerves.
For He's coming someday, to bear your soul away
were changed at first into the latter’s tongue.
Do you think that it's smart to jump from heart to heart

the sympathy which thou dost take for fear.
Well I'm standin' on a corner - With a bucket in my hand
for I in frays like this have been before.
Oh the blues come around

to clear an anchor clinging to a reef,
Now you're lookin' at a man that's gettin' kind-a mad
frogs stay with nothing but their muzzles out,
And tho I lost you to another

which overcame a hemisphere of gloom.
In a little pine grove by the old home
but see thou that thy tongue restrain itself.
We'd meet there ev'ry Ev'nin'

Canto LXIV

I did not die, nor yet remained alive;
When I can't get you off of my mind.
they give the warning which bids mariners
Why can't I free your doubtful mind and melt your cold, cold heart?

fastened upon his roasted face mine eyes,
So brother keep on prayin' and follow where you're lead
appears. But night is coming up again,
You tried to pretend that you were happy

and hurled it to some distance from the edge
Why when I married you, you were such a meek little thing
my Leader turned to me with that sweet look,
this world

so, one by one, the evil seed of Adam
Praise the Lord I saw the light.
But tell me why thou dost not mind descending
TOOK MY GAL TO THE PICTURE SHOW, JUST THE OTHER DAY,

Thus with uplifted face I cried; whereat
The trees stand so silent and still
down from the place at which one buckles cloaks.
Baby, we're really in love.

to tell us how within these knotted trunks
I'll tell them we grew tired of each other
Thus gathered I beheld the fair assembly
You can see this lad all alone

or other inhibition binding man,
We slaved to gain a worthless treasure
defended by a lovely little stream.
We'll go Honky Tonkin' 'round this town.

may quit thee for it in the world above,
You're drifting to far from the shore
above. On this side have their burial-place
Callin' You?, (Callin' You?)

What is it, then? Why, why dost thou hold back?
darlin I could never be ashamed of you.
wherewith I smitten was that final day;
When I get to Glory, I'm Gonna sing, sing, sing.

and steeper far than was the one before.
I can't help it if I'm still in love with you.
And my wise Teacher thereupon made signs
The first scene is that of a gambler

which o’er the Tyrol lock out Germany,
He walked every step up Calvary's ragged way
were situated so, that its lay-brethren
And drag you right down in disgrace

whereon I kept mine eyes so steadily,
Yipsy-doodle, (Rootie Tootie)
for flames were spread about within the tombs,
I was sad and blue, I was down-hearted, too

Canto LXV

up in the world, where he can still return.
"When they get down to pray, I'll just get up and leave
she turns her sphere, and blest enjoys herself.
This heart of mine - could never see

I bit in anguish both my hands. And they,
Out on this river
As is the appearance which, where many moats
But I'm satisfied with you.

He therefore took me up with both his arms,
A lady of the evening and you know the penalty
Toward us they came, and each of them cried out:
It should have been a tear of gladness

then said: “The spirits are within the fires,
So remember they're your brothers
He therefore took me up with both his arms,
Winter or summer

wander so far from that which is its wont,
If you'll follow in His light
My Leader stopped; and I to him, who still
Will you please make up your mind what you want me to do

on every side the deep and foul abyss
'cause it looks like rain
“Thou wouldst that I renew a hopeless grief,
A lawyer proved I wasn't born

who in the figure of a cross was stretched
Yea! My Bucket's Got A Hole In It
alive; but if they ’re dead, by what right, then,
To live in when this life is o'er

Those spirits, though, who nude and weary were,
YOU LEAVE ME ALONE AND RUN AROUND,
and Francis of Accorso, too; and him,
In anger, unkind words are said that make the teardrops start

and from the ten horns her support received,
Last night I walked the floor
not he who loses, but the one who wins.
So I'll say goodbye dear till tomorrow

the arch’s summit, where the crag is highest.
The city slicker's waitin' for the country boy
“That here thy presence be not known, crouch down
But I'm satisfied with you.

while, calling him, his father cried: “Thou hold’st
Still I know I claim you for my own
Not yet had Nessus reached the other side,
I'm a-gonna do some riding on the midnight train

and lived, and there she left her empty body.
Say hey, good lookin' - what ya got cookin'?
that broken is stern judgment there above.
I knew not where the road would end

Canto LXVI

He answered me: “Therein are both Ulysses
But what good would it do
how from afar one’s senses are deceived;
All my life I've been so lonesome

“What saidst thou? Held? Is he not still alive?
Your cheatin' heart will tell on you...
and with its fore feet seized upon his arms;
Let Jesus lead you home

till he have put her back again in Hell,
If just a few parted parents
speaking and weeping shalt thou see together.
I made a mistake, dear, by tellin' you lies

stoop, then, nor twist thy muzzle. He can still
I'm a rollin stone all alone and lost
chastised; no torment, saving thine own rage,
The old maid's waitin' for leap year to come

And he to me: “If thine own star thou follow,
On the banks of the old Pontchartrain.
turned back to look again upon the pass
I got a feelin' called the blues, oh Lord

We thereupon proceeded further still,
My sister married a brakeman and it ain't no joke,
pray tell me why so pitiless toward mine
Drifting alone

The One whose knowledge everything transcends,
In old Alabam'
to flee from him, what is on this side seen
WITH SOMETHIN' A CIRCLIN' ROUND YA HEAD

of lawful love, became her father’s mistress.
We don't get nearer or further or closer
“I fast not from a previous sight of him.
I'm satisfied with you.

distress thee, for, whatever power he have,
There all my fears and tears were lost
for which I pay the reckoning in this heat.
Drifting too far from the shore (from the shore)

whose tail and head were thrust between their loins,
Now, You're Gonna Change or I'm a-gonna leave.
has been in pain with us, and with our mates
There'll be nation against nation, there'll be war and rumor of war.

down into that profound and dark abyss.
There'll be no more sorrow
because of which I said: “These torments, Teacher,
Feelin' dandy, doin' swell

Canto LXVII

and who through their surprise forgot their pain.
I know I'd still want you-ooo-oo
They blended each with each in such a way
You've known so long that you were wrong

we with our oars made wings for our mad flight,
KAW-LIGA, was a lonely Indian never went nowhere
confiding in that noble speech of thine,
And there'll be no quarralin'

a frightful form of Justice may be seen.
I've been a fool about you, for way too long
“These orange cloaks, one answered, “are of lead,
Last night I dreamed of heaven and I saw my mother there

above extends, and draweth in below.
WHEN SOMETHIN BIGHTS YOU ON THE NOSE...FLY TROUBLE
But little did it profit him; for wings
Then all God's faithful children will raise up from the dead

Now I would have thee know that, when down here
You better keep it on your mind (all the time)
down into that profound and dark abyss.
When I got thru with all my lies

by their four faces, how I looked myself,
Are you walkin and a-talkin with the lord?
hard in the face of one I struck my foot.
you are on my lonely mind.

But tell me: at the time of tender sighs,
Where the soul of man never dies
Each of these parts, except the golden one,
You'll cry and cry

such was the coarse, dense pitch, which, not by fire,
Swing wide the gate and leave it open
I swooned away as though about to die,
Say hey, good lookin' - what ya got cookin'?

now falls each star that rose when I set out,
Heaven holds all my treasures
that from the facts the telling differ not.
I tried so hard,my dear,to show that you're my every dream

where for a thousand there should refuge be;
My Son Calls Another Man Daddy
who lived with neither infamy nor praise.
But some glad day I'm going home

another’s person in herself, as dared
I don't believe the good Lord meant for a man to win
each turned, and rolling back his weight, cried out:
It's rocky and it's rough

I then saw sitting and against each other
I'm traveling in the light
past all resistance by the minds of men;
We fight and we fuss like a dog and a cat

Canto LXVIII

distress thee, for, whatever power he have,
Countin' numbers 1-2-3
who, smoking like wet hands in winter-time,
That I'd be happy if we'd part

but not till each, as signal toward their leader,
The first scene is that of a gambler
“O Tuscan, thou that through the town of fire
I got the ho-on-ky tonk blues.

The kindly Teacher said: “Now, son, at last
I saw a teardrop on a rose.
upon their passing, lioness and cubs!
Well I stopped into every place in town

which doubled my first fear. Hence thus I thought:
Now my gal's short and stubby,
when lo, another, which behind it came,
So why should we try anymore

save that baked clay his right foot is, and straighter
would you stop and try to save
were fitting, thereupon began to cry.
His life's blood almost gone

“Who has forbidden me the homes of pain?
In this world of greed and hate will you wait til it's too late
Thou sayest that the sire of Silvio entered,
But I know she waits and prays

begins, and all the cruel trenches spans,
Colorado and Nevada through the deserts burnin' door
people can make against it no defence.
I was a fool to wander and a-stray

of those in here, so may thy nails
With your dying breath
in order to behold your punishments.
Praise the Lord, I'll have a new life

gave forth a wind, whence flashed vermilion light
I left her alone without saying goodbye
such on that gloomy slope did I become;
Well I stopped into every place in town

and when he saw us there he bit himself,
I'll try to repay
perhaps, have granted me a longer stay.
A neighbor was passing my garden one time

no more; but on mine ears there smote a wail,
Skies above are dark and stormy
saw infantry, who, under pledge of safety,
A slave too long to a heart of stone

that these sinned not; and though they merits have,
Everyone here tried to warn me
And then I said: ‘O brothers, ye who now
Are you walkin and a-talkin with the lord?

Canto LXIX

nor hast thou only now thereto disposed me.
Goodbye to the fields, that I used to roam
that he could make no use of them at all.
As I travel down life's road

twisting and lashing its sharp-pointed horn.
jesus, he died on calvarys tree
that every part on every other shines,
So now that she is leavin'

one of thy troop, at whose side we may be,
Where the soul........never dies
I know not whether I was here too bold,
I'm so lonesome I could cry

in front of one, and clings to him all over;
The mortgage is due and - I can't pay
and backward it behooved him to advance,
Oh, I shined up my shoes and then I slicked down my hair

is wholly vain, and we, if others bring
I Told A Lie To My Heart.
which crosses from the fourth bank to the fifth.
Now I lay awake, dear, with tears in my eyes

this deep abyss and those that people it.
She just couldn't stand my disgrace
And he to me, like one aware, replied:
If she drinks while you taught her and if she smokes you showed her how

beyond it with us, but with quicker steps;
Lost on the river
He was a haughty person in the world;
I stood there and listened, and I heard this prayer

What was the master’s power who girded him,
Now I've learned to slow my temper down and not to pick no scraps no more
“All fearfulness must here be left behind;
But it just don't matter now